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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,59c3b3f9911c9191 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.174.74 with SMTP id s10mr1518729qaz.1.1343317624983; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.89.196 with SMTP id bq4mr1827504pab.26.1343317624906; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:47:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.201.129 with SMTP id ka1mr88051pbc.4.1343314174159; Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:49:34 -0700 (PDT) Path: a15ni113198934qag.0!nntp.google.com!q21no8479043qas.0!news-out.google.com!p10ni65138561pbh.1!nntp.google.com!u4no1019846pbs.0!news-out.google.com!b9ni64886863pbl.0!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.swapon.de!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: erlo.haugen@gmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <6f28df4c-6b1a-46d1-a3b9-9ae41ea975a2@googlegroups.com> References: <500dc548$0$2936$f40e02c5@shockwave.dk.telia.net> <18893cca-baa2-4930-bfb4-4c4f7eb7e983@googlegroups.com> <5s8s08lv6dj1i4tkb99roq9roifsgr44vd@invalid.netcom.com> <1e0fmpgo1d8ke.7gc1rzrv8v72.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.163.1.105 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343116215 4157 127.0.0.1 (24 Jul 2012 07:50:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:50:15 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1e0fmpgo1d8ke.7gc1rzrv8v72.dlg@40tude.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.163.1.105; posting-account=N7skygoAAAA1XsML8HGZssZ0aoLQa6Br User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-07-24T00:50:15-07:00 List-Id: Den tirsdag den 24. juli 2012 09.11.57 UTC+2 skrev Dmitry A. Kazakov: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:37:13 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:07:48 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan > > <adam@irvine.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada: > > > > My gut feeling is that if NTP gives you a time in the range 1-1-1900 to > > 12-31-1900, something is pretty wrong because computers didn't exist > > during that time period. So I'm not really sure what the issue is. I > > think you need > > > > Nonetheless, it appears that a 128bit value of all 0s represents the > > epoch for Network Time Protocol... > > Is NTP political time? If not, it does not make much sense to convert it > Ada.Calendar.Time anyway. Ada.Real_Time.Time looks more appropriate. > > -- > Regards, > Dmitry A. Kazakov > http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de Enlighten me please, what is meant by 'political time'? Erlo