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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:11:57 +0200
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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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