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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Inserting Calendar.Time in a database
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 22:32:02 +0200
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On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 09:50:18 +0000 (UTC), Martin Dowie wrote:

> Or just read the UTC Offset until you get 2 values that are the same...

(:-)) Consider an Ada system put in a car moving along a time zone
margin...

But seriously, there are requirements on time stamps Ada.Calendar.Time does
not meet:

1. Not monotonic
2. Coarse granularity (12 ms in the worst case)
3. Two clock readings are not unique

And why a small networking embedded system (intelligent sensor, for
example), which needs synchronized clock should use Ada.Calendar, maintain
time zone data base etc?

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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