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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b151131f90050ab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-29 06:02:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BDD619D.2090604@acm.org> From: Corey Minyard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada, calendar, and daylight savings References: <3BDC97CE.8070304@acm.org> <3BDCD0A9.5010101@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:02:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.109.109 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 1004364152 24.7.109.109 (Mon, 29 Oct 2001 06:02:32 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 06:02:32 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15344 Date: 2001-10-29T14:02:32+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article <3BDCD0A9.5010101@acm.org>, Corey Minyard 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