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Subject: Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day
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Ada seems to guarantee that Duration covers 24 hours (?). What you do when =
you need to represent for example 5 years?

reinert

s=C3=B8ndag 5. september 2021 kl. 09:27:41 UTC+2 skrev Dmitry A. Kazakov:
> On 2021-09-05 08:56, reinert wrote:=20
> > Anybody with good ideas on how (in a simplest possible way) to avoid to=
 confuse between representation of time as seconds, minutes, hours and days=
 in an Ada program?
> Just use the standard type Duration.
> > It is somewhere in my program natural/human to think in seconds whereas=
 minutes or hours feels more natural at other places (so the numerics is "h=
uman"). Example to illustrate: heart rate is "natural" to give in number pe=
r minute (not in number per second, hour or day). Time on work is normally =
given by hours (not seconds) etc..
> The user interface is responsible to convert anything to Duration and bac=
k.=20
>=20
> --=20
> Regards,=20
> Dmitry A. Kazakov=20
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de