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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ?
Date: 24 Mar 2009 12:29:33 +0100
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reinkor <reinkor@gmail.com> writes:

> What is the "natural"/best way to make an Ada program treat
> time/calendar data in UTC ?  The quetion is about treating old
> measurements/data tagged with UTC time.

In that case I would probably load the data into a data structure
composed with the necessary precision and ranges.  It might make sense
to reuse some of the subtypes from Ada.Calendar when constructing the
data structure.

Greetings,

Jacob
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