From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfd23c10fd537a80 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" Subject: Re: Ada Calendar oddity Date: 2000/05/22 Message-ID: <39298C83.7794DDB8@online.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 625975857 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39176D85.603D7AEC@research.canon.com.au> <39178DEA.FD2C20FA@research.canon.com.au> <8f92o1$6v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3918BB77.693C70D6@research.canon.com.au> <8fahfv$mgt$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39230A82.CFA6E18D@earthlink.net> <3924B35E.DC0C9CDF@acenet.com.au> <8g8od2$9o6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <392869F0.D88F056A@acenet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@online.no X-Trace: news1.online.no 959024263 130.67.225.201 (Mon, 22 May 2000 21:37:43 MET DST) Organization: Jensen programvareutvikling MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 21:37:43 MET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Geoff Bull wrote: > Maybe, but I can't use Ada.Calendar to represent dates more than > ~ +/- 100 years from today's date. > It is beyond me why I need to create my own date package if I want to > do more than look at today's date To me it look like you are trying to use the calendar package for something that it was not intended to do. Perhaps the name calendar is wrong? If you want to handle dates and times outside internal Ada scheduling, I think you are supposed to create your own stuff. Greetings,