Timestamps in Ada

Timestamps in Ada

[A.I]

Hi, I want a server program to write logfiles with timestamping, something
like:

...
[11/03/2002 13:04:15] Connection from 127.0.0.0
...

how can I get the Date and Time in Ada? and conversion to string?

Another question. I like the Ada Reference Manual in the Windows .hlp
version very much, it's easy to find what you're looking for, but i'm now
working under a unix environment. What is the best and quickest source for
Ada documentation?

Thanks.

Re: Timestamps in Ada

[Marc A. Criley]

"A.I" wrote:
> 
> Hi, I want a server program to write logfiles with timestamping, something
> like:
> 
> ...
> [11/03/2002 13:04:15] Connection from 127.0.0.0
> ...
> 
> how can I get the Date and Time in Ada? and conversion to string?

Use the Clock function in the standard Calendar package to get the time
(which comprises both date and time), and if you're using GNAT, you can
use the GNAT.Calendar.Time_IO function to convert it into the desired
string representation.

There are some other "time conversion" utilities available that others
here will likely mention.

Marc A. Criley
Consultant
Quadrus Corporation
www.quadruscorp.com

Re: Timestamps in Ada

[Peter Hermann]

Marc A. Criley <mcqada95@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Use the Clock function in the standard Calendar package to get the time

> There are some other "time conversion" utilities available that others
> here will likely mention.

thank you, Marc, yes, of course  :-)

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Re: Timestamps in Ada

[Nazgul]

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Thanks all, I just used Ada.Calendar and Gnat.Calendar for the Hour & Minute
& Second functions, and all works right.

"Peter Hermann" <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> escribi� en el
mensaje news:a6kteh$bab$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de...
> Marc A. Criley <mcqada95@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Use the Clock function in the standard Calendar package to get the time
>
> > There are some other "time conversion" utilities available that others
> > here will likely mention.
>
> thank you, Marc, yes, of course  :-)
>
>
http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/adapilotresources/basic_tools/c
alenday.ads
>
> --
> --Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de
> --Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen
> --http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/
> --Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)

Re: Timestamps in Ada

[Georg Bauhaus]

A.I <airadier@able.es> wrote:

:  What is the best and quickest source for
: Ada documentation?

You could use either of the text, info, or html versions,
present in GNAT docs packages, 
for example somewhere in ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/

- georg

Re: Timestamps in Ada

[Jeffrey Carter]

Nazgul wrote:
> 
> Thanks all, I just used Ada.Calendar and Gnat.Calendar for the Hour & Minute
> & Second functions, and all works right.

As long as you're using GNAT. For a portable solution, see
PragmARC.Date_Handler.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter

Ada docs, was Re: Timestamps in Ada

[tmoran]

>:  What is the best and quickest source for
>: Ada documentation?
>You could use either of the text, info, or html versions,
>present in GNAT docs packages,
>for example somewhere in ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/
Or
http://www.adaic.org/standards/ada95.html
http://www.ada-auth.org/~acats/arm.html
http://www.adapower.com/rm95/index.html

Re: Timestamps in Ada

[Alfred Hilscher]

"Marc A. Criley" wrote:
> > how can I get the Date and Time in Ada? and conversion to string?
> 
> Use the Clock function in the standard Calendar package to get the time

A while ago I wrote a program (GNAT 3.13p, WinNT, 3 tasks) which used
the "Calendar" package to write timestamps into a logfile, but I
realised that when the system time changes (due to sync with a time
server, or even by calling "Time" in a DOS window), the Ada.Calendar
time doesn't change. So the logfile didn't reflect the events correctly.