From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d4801f5d6baa249d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "peter koch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: F-22 Raptor software problem Date: 26 Feb 2007 15:55:47 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1172534147.771342.169000@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.79.147.244 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172534172 5436 127.0.0.1 (26 Feb 2007 23:56:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:56:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.79.147.244; posting-account=1dG_FA0AAABYQw91Wi3UP4q2Stjl__dS Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9563 Date: 2007-02-26T15:55:47-08:00 List-Id: On 26 Feb., 05:47, Hyman Rosen wrote: > It's being reported (Slashdot, via CNN) that twelve of these > planes had their navigation and communications completely shut > down as they crossed the international date line while flying > from Hawaii to Japan. I believe much of the plane's software > is in Ada, but I have no details as to what caused the error. It surprises me that the software had problems dealing with this problem in the first place. Why anyone uses "calender time" for anything but display purposes is simply beyond my comprehension. /Peter