From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:11:57 +0200
Date: 2012-07-24T09:11:57+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e0fmpgo1d8ke.7gc1rzrv8v72.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5s8s08lv6dj1i4tkb99roq9roifsgr44vd@invalid.netcom.com
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:37:13 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:07:48 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan
> <adam@irvine.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
> My gut feeling is that if NTP gives you a time in the range 1-1-1900 to
> 12-31-1900, something is pretty wrong because computers didn't exist
> during that time period. So I'm not really sure what the issue is. I
> think you need
>
> Nonetheless, it appears that a 128bit value of all 0s represents the
> epoch for Network Time Protocol...
Is NTP political time? If not, it does not make much sense to convert it
Ada.Calendar.Time anyway. Ada.Real_Time.Time looks more appropriate.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2012-07-23 21:42 Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch) erlo
2012-07-23 22:07 ` Adam Beneschan
[not found] ` <5s8s08lv6dj1i4tkb99roq9roifsgr44vd@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-24 7:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-07-24 7:50 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 8:34 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 12:27 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 13:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 14:10 ` erlo
2012-07-24 16:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 7:24 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 16:26 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 18:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 19:07 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 20:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 19:43 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-24 20:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 21:22 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 6:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25 7:04 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25 8:05 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 8:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25 8:45 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 9:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 20:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-25 10:14 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-25 13:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 7:37 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 11:34 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 11:59 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-24 15:08 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 16:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-24 19:25 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 22:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-24 19:17 ` John B. Matthews
2012-07-25 2:23 ` sla29970
2012-07-25 6:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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