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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting current date and time
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:43:30 -0700
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On Jul 23, 1:08 pm, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 Lip, 22:02, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've found it now in the Index - it is described in section 9.6, which
> > is not part of the standard library description.
>
> Still, I don't know how to portably get the number of seconds in the
> Unix epoch (for example, now is 1185221230). The built-in Duration
> type is not guaranteed to have the necessary range.
> How to solve it?

In Ada 2005, this is handled by the Differences procedure in
Ada.Calendar.Arithmetic (9.6.1).  You can use Ada.Calendar.Time_Of to
create the Time value for January 1, 1970, and then use that as a
parameter to Differences.

                     -- Adam