From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Inspiration for a better calendar package?
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:44:25 +0100
Date: 2008-12-09T16:44:25+01:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: zdudnQrU-fNOFqPUnZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@trueband.net
On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:16:19 -0600, JDECS wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> It was silly for Ada 2005 to define time arithmetic
>> in terms of political time.
> No, not silly, necessity, although not well compartmentalized.
Silly because they could easily define arithmetic on UTC, providing
conversions to the political time. This could be made in an *unambiguous*
way. Instead of that they defined arithmetic on political time. That just
cannot work, mathematically cannot.
I don't know their motivations. After all, I know no processor+main board
combination which had "political clock" hardware. Maybe some BIOS clock?
But BIOS clock would be unusable anyway...
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 9:48 Inspiration for a better calendar package? Jacob Sparre Andersen
2008-12-09 10:15 ` Martin
2008-12-09 11:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-12-09 12:23 ` Martin
2008-12-09 15:16 ` JDECS
2008-12-09 15:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-12-09 17:04 ` JDECS
2008-12-15 7:45 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2008-12-15 9:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-12-15 12:14 ` m.collado
2008-12-15 13:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-12-15 12:59 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2008-12-15 13:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-12-16 0:47 ` sjw
2008-12-16 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-12-16 12:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-12-16 5:50 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2008-12-16 8:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-12-16 12:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-12-17 6:16 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2008-12-17 8:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-12-18 21:48 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2008-12-19 8:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
[not found] ` <9ImdneCohuZCNdvUnZ2dnUVZ_s3inZ2d@earthlink.com>
2008-12-16 5:13 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
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