From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei@online.no>
Subject: Re: Ada Calendar oddity <was Re: C date package>
Date: 2000/05/10
Date: 2000-05-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3919CC94.538DDBA0@online.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn8hioca.101.randhol+nospam@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no
Preben Randhol wrote:
> An example: If I were to make a program for issuing drivers licenses
> here in Norway there would be a problem. Well not immediately but in
> only 18 years.
>
> The reason is that driver's licenses expires as you get 100 years old. So
> mine expires in 2073.
>
> If one wanted to use the Year type in Ada.Calendar for birthday and
> expiration date, one would get an constraint error when one issued
> drivers licences for these born this year. Wouldn't one?
>
> I may have missed some thing important when I speedily "read" the
> Ada.Calendar, but this seems a bit odd to me (the upper limit that is).
That would be a wrong use of the type. The drivers license "problem" is
a database issue. You should not use something that is internal to Ada
in that context.
Greetings,
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[not found] <l0313030eb53d1408aee7@[144.205.16.58]>
2000-05-09 0:00 ` C date package Geoff Bull
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Ada Calendar oddity <was Re: C date package> Preben Randhol
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-19 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <392869F0.D88F056A@acenet.com.au>
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-27 0:00 ` Reinert Korsnes
2000-05-27 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen [this message]
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Al Christians
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-12 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-10 0:00 ` C date package Geoff Bull
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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