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On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 11:01:28 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>=20
> It always puzzled me, as well as the endianness of date: 03/10/2017 =3D=
=20
> March 10, 2017 (:-))

Given the DOD origins of Ada, I'm rather surprised the native date format i=
sn't "DDMMMYY" / "DD-MMM-YY[YY]" -- proper "military date" which is unambig=
uous (something you need for serialization/de-serialization) -- and perhaps=
 have an optional "ISO 8601" child-package of Calendar w/ the 95 revision.