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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e686c2c95beefb1c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Inserting Calendar.Time in a database Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:26:52 +0200 Message-ID: <1mx9v930extrc.4ikwnqma1jey.dlg@40tude.net> References: <1jgik0ntrex36$.1pyha1husddpe.dlg@40tude.net> <19pc26q7dwvt2.1fyyqhr5nv5j2$.dlg@40tude.net> <412db53f$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <2p5tveFh9md6U1@uni-berlin.de> <412dd666$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ZDUNPaB8NSmjczCZ17a6kwIELwxXFXEjlwtF2Z4JtpIu7KEns= User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.12.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3034 Date: 2004-08-26T18:26:52+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:32:49 +0100, Martin Dowie wrote: > Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >> exist radio clock devices doing that much better. It is no seller. > > It might be a 'no seller' - but it's already 'flying' ;-) Concord? (:-)) >> So you actually disagree with Randy! (:-)) > > I'm not sure now! ;-) > > All I'm saying is that for the embedded system I work with, we don't > /need/ UTC (and I suspect that's true for a lot of apps). We do need > a notion of timestamp but there is no need to actually tie it to UTC or > any 'calendar' - it just needs to be from 'reset' for each board. I think it is important for Ada to realize that embedded world is changing. -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de