From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ada, calendar, and daylight savings
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:02:32 GMT
Date: 2001-10-29T14:02:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDD619D.2090604@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YrMIYKr5Zh1z@eisner.encompasserve.org
Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> In article <3BDCD0A9.5010101@acm.org>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:
>
>
>>In other words, Ada.Calendar is not useful for operating in a
>>geographically distributed heterogeneous system where you have to
>>coordinate times.
>>
>
> Only in cases where you insist on providing "local time" representations.
>
No, that's all the calendar is good for. It's not good for comparing
times at different locations, in different computers that are possibly
not even running Ada.
-Corey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-29 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-28 23:41 Ada, calendar, and daylight savings Corey Minyard
2001-10-28 23:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 3:44 ` Corey Minyard
2001-10-29 10:17 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 14:02 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2001-10-29 14:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-29 2:34 ` Steven Deller
2001-10-29 3:51 ` tmoran
2001-10-29 5:53 ` Corey Minyard
2001-10-29 6:49 ` tmoran
2001-10-29 10:21 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 14:18 ` Corey Minyard
2001-10-29 23:15 ` tmoran
2001-10-30 2:07 ` Corey Minyard
2001-10-30 3:11 ` tmoran
2001-11-01 0:13 ` Al Christians
2001-10-30 12:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-10-29 14:48 ` Marin David Condic
2001-10-29 17:41 ` Corey Minyard
2001-10-30 2:19 ` Nick Roberts
2001-10-30 5:41 ` Al Christians
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