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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting current date and time
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On 23 Lip, 23:43, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> 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.

The problem is that I need just a number of seconds (this is for
interfacing with other software which uses that Unix-like time
descriptions), so I cannot use the value which is broken down into
several components.
Moreover, the concept of leap seconds does not fit here neither (or
does it?).

Try this on GNU/Linux:

$ date +%s

I need to get the same number at the time the program is executed.

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Maciej Sobczak
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