Re: Getting current date and time

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 01:53 -0700, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> 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?).

If recomputing the seconds doesn't seem adequate,
and you want Unix epoch seconds, why not call the
system function that provides Unix epoch seconds?