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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee78aab9bfd2fe2a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Inspiration for a better calendar package? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <873agxd6i1.fsf@nbi.dk> <12gqldae49yoe$.1sf2zlz1fthvh.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:44:25 +0100 Message-ID: <3s3wen7fkjj4$.ynij6r34qpzk$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 09 Dec 2008 16:44:25 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 70440040.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=c_c8QJ?G8kMFJ3]dH>I?oEA9EHlD;3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA^YC2XCjHcbIdCc[TJoBeNLDNcfSJ;bb[EFCTGGVUmh?DLK[5LiR>kgB]27[1VSo_^F X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2945 Date: 2008-12-09T16:44:25+01:00 List-Id: 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