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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 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!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Wilhelm Spickermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Inspiration for a better calendar package? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:13:19 +0100 Message-ID: <6qornfFdrsdeU1@mid.individual.net> References: <873agxd6i1.fsf@nbi.dk> <12gqldae49yoe$.1sf2zlz1fthvh.dlg@40tude.net> <6qmg8dFd8kd2U1@mid.individual.net> <1jv16tgrmhor4$.c3a8ugjxu6ed$.dlg@40tude.net> <6qn2kmFdflp2U1@mid.individual.net> <9ImdneCohuZCNdvUnZ2dnUVZ_s3inZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net WngraXN/zQpJjGxvYkzqsQCEjjvu0B2uZ0CQyyxKXHGhr4uLK7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yo45cnKd8kQUJ4vUIXliIu154Cs= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3002 Date: 2008-12-16T06:13:19+01:00 List-Id: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >> The resolution of "one nominial minute" (_not_ a physical >> unit) for wall clock time was chosen, because it's the finest >> usable resultion. We can tell that we have 4 nominal minutes >> between 31-dec-2044 23:59:58 and 01-jan-2045 00:00:02. But we >> cannot express this difference in seconds (or in the physical >> unit "one minute"). We will hopefully be able to do that in >> summer 2044 or perhaps earlier, when the leap seconds are >> eliminated. >> > Pardon? 23:59:58 incrementing to 00:00:02 is a change of four > SECONDS, not minutes. OOps, sorry. I should have used 31-dec-2044 23:58 and 01-jan-2045 00:02. But it is not four seconds, it is three, four or five seconds, depending on yet unknown leap second decisions. Wilhelm