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[Marin Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:

> But you are right, there are lots of variations, note that in
> this package, these are simply special cases of a much more
> general mechanism, which will cover all the date formats that
> you quote.

With so many standards to choose from, how can one ever make up one's
mind? :-) It would be useful if the computer industry devised some sort
of convention which would allow programs written in a variety of
languages to easily provide text I/O logic for reading/writing dates.
After all, I can't think of any language which is incapable of reading
123.456 as a real number and 123 as an integer number, etc. Why not a
minimal acceptable standard for dates? Maybe Ada can be the first to
define such a standard?

MDC
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