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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92471489ebbc99c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) Subject: Re: Y2K Issues Date: 1998/11/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 408457929 References: <362B53A3.64E266AB@res.raytheon.com> <36365724.EF1CC215@maths.unine.ch> <718200$efa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <718200$efa$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> adam@irvine.com writes: > Of course, even the current Calendar package is going to have > problems with Russian dates, since they stayed with the Julian > calendar until 1918 (with the result that the October Revolution > really happened in November). I suppose it was a flaw in the > design of Ada that the designers didn't consider that > case---perhaps they should have made the year subrange 1919..2099 > to avoid this problem. The Greek government changed in the 1930's, where do you stop? -- Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...