Re: calander package

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

This might be a viable idea for a "semi-standard" add-on package to Ada.
However, one gripe: I think that the package ought to support Microseconds
since there are often times where this level of resolution is possible &
desirable. On systems where you don't have it, it just rounds up to whatever
resolution you do have. On that argument, one might even go so far as to ask
for representation of Nanoseconds, given that a 32 bit word could hold the
Nanoseconds in a Second. Except for specialized things, you're not likely to
get a clock resolution much better than that any time soon - otherwise I'd
ask for Attoseconds or something equally ridiculous! :-)

So perhaps a version of the package should be created that replaces
Milliseconds with Micro or Nanoseconds? (You definitely don't want to have
micro-within-milli. I've seen that done and it gets really confusing!)

MDC
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"Vincent Marciante" <marciant@li.net> wrote in message
news:3AAED192.1479@li.net...
> The original Booch.Calendar_Utilities could be considered.
>
> http://www.adapower.com/original_booch/
>
> Its spec follows.
>
<snip>
>     type Time is
>         record
>             The_Year        : Year;
>             The_Month       : Month;
>             The_Day         : Day;
>             The_Hour        : Hour;
>             The_Minute      : Minute;
>             The_Second      : Second;
>             The_Millisecond : Millisecond;
>         end record;