Re: calander package

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Near trivial if all you want is MM/DD/YY or something similar. Still, it
seems a shame that Ada.Calendar didn't provide one or more functions to
return the date/time as a string - just because it is frequently needed and
getting it from the language environment would imply a certain amount of
consistency.

I've built my own to generate the date/time in a whole variety of formats
because on any number of occasions you might need it different ways. Maybe I
should revisit this code with the goal of consolidating it down to fewer
routines with more options? A dozen or so formats suggests an enumeral and
the rest would be some flavor of "What character(s) do you like for
separators?" and "Did you want the current time or are you going to give me
a time of your own?"

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <98lis0$56j$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says...
> Well, with that caveat, I'll mention that the 2.0 release of the SETI@Home
> service just happens to have a routine in it that does exactly that (for
> date/time-stamping log entries). It'd probably be just as easy for most
folks to
> write their own, though.
>