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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: calander package - Proposal for dates
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Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:
> 
> > This proposal limits you to a fixed set of formats. If the format you
> > need is not in that set, you are out of luck.
> 
> Indeed. Please have a look at the GNAT.Calendar.Time_IO package which is very
> flexible. Well let me post the spec of GNAT.Calendar and
> GNAT.Calendar.Time_IO. These are certainly a good start for this discussion :)

I'm aware of and familiar with these. I find using a format string with
"%X" indicators in it somehow not in the spirit of Ada.

Jeff