From: Geoff Bull <gbull@acenet.com.au>
Subject: Re: Ada Calendar oddity <was Re: C date package>
Date: 2000/05/11
Date: 2000-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <391AB866.23686FFB@acenet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3919CC94.538DDBA0@online.no
"Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" wrote:
>
> > 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?
> 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.
So when you read a date from the database, what type should you use?
If you avoid using Ada.Calendar how do you compare the database time
with the today's date, e.g.?
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[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 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
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
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
2000-05-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull [this message]
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
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