In article <39298C83.7794DDB8@online.no>,
 "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <tarjei@online.no> writes:
|> Geoff Bull wrote:
|> > Maybe, but I can't use Ada.Calendar to represent dates more than
|> >  ~ +/- 100 years from today's date.
|> > It is beyond me why I need to create my own date package if I want to
|> > do more than look at today's date
|> 
|> To me it look like you are trying to use the calendar package for
|> something that it was not intended to do. Perhaps the name calendar is
|> wrong?
|> 
|> If you want to handle dates and times outside internal Ada scheduling, I
|> think you are supposed to create your own stuff.

But I love Ada.Calendar.  So elegant.  I use it under gnat and
calsulate times/durations over 10-20 years.... (when treating environment 
data).    But the conclusion is that I then do something really dirty ?   

reinert


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|> Greetings,

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