Re: Ada.Calendar.Formatting.Image (or Time_Of) changing the time

[Optikos <ZUERCHER_Andreas@outlook.com>]

On Friday, March 6, 2020 at 6:19:20 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Optikos" wrote in message 
> news:6c9347ec-8c2b-4a77-bdd8-a52b6f2d7858@googlegroups.com...
> ...
> >My point is that if Ada 2020's ISO/IEC is officially emitted the way that 
> >so-called
> >Ada 2005's official amendment ISO/IEC8652:1995/Amd1:2007 to official 
> >standard
> >ISO/IEC8652:1995 still in effect, then these binding AIs need to be 
> >pursuant to not
> >only an ISO/IEC8652:2012/Amd1:2020 (or :2021) but also an
> >ISO/IEC8652:2012/Corr1:2020 (or 2021) to be retroactive back to 2012. 
> >Hence,
> >it would be advantageous in this regard for the Ada 2005 model of mere 
> >official
> >amendment to a still-in-effect prior standard to be avoided and the Ada 
> >2012 model
> >to be enacted for Ada 2020.
> 
> My understanding is that ISO has a limit of two modifying documents to any 
> particular Standard before a revision is required. We already have a 
> Corrigendum to the Ada 2012 standard, and adding a separate Corrigendum and 
> Amendment would add two more, which would exceed the limit.
> 
> So I don't believe this idea would be allowed. We might be able to get a 
> waiver (once), but you're suggesting using it as a long-term strategy, and 
> that wouldn't be allowed.
> 
>                                                    Randy.

No, I am not making any such suggestion at all.  Instead, I am suggesting that releasing Ada 2020 as a full-fledged standard instead of merely an amendment (as Ada 2005 was) fixes so many problems and mitigates so many complications, as described above, due to the new edition of the standard wiping the slate clean again without needing to retroactively maintain the Ada 2012 standard anymore.