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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,27d478aa577d0f8b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Getting current date and time Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:26:50 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1185348410.753153.22950@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: <1185139279.071088.106330@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1185145228.126307.301840@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1185220676.926492.258330@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1185220926.372760.52420@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <1185221307.073177.279370@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <1185227010.432172.50300@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <1185267194.506294.197760@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1185290698.850041.204530@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.138.37.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1185348410 26526 127.0.0.1 (25 Jul 2007 07:26:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:26:50 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1185290698.850041.204530@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20070601 Red Hat/1.5.0.12-0.1.slc3 Firefox/1.5.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.138.37.241; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1152 Date: 2007-07-25T00:26:50-07:00 List-Id: On 24 Lip, 17:24, Adam Beneschan wrote: > > 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. > > Why not? Differences returns the result in "days" and "seconds", and > you should be able to convert the "days" to seconds by multiplying it > by a value that I just recently helped my 9-year-old figure out, and > then adding the result to the second value, and then maybe adding the > leap seconds (see below). Right. I didn't notice that it's just two components, not more (without years, months and days). > We could > conceivably propose a new addition to Ada.Calendar.Arithmetic: > > function > Return_Current_Time_However_The_Other_Software_Maciej_Is_Using_Does_It; > > but I sort of doubt that a proposal like that would be accepted. On my system Ada.Calendar.Time_Of and Ada.Calendar.Formatting.Time_Of behave *differenty* with the same arguments, so with such a mess already in the library no additional proposal could hurt... Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I was able now to get the expected values by using Ada.Calendar.Formatting.Time_Of. -- Maciej Sobczak http://www.msobczak.com/