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: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Y2K Issues Date: 1998/10/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 406337153 Sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: houdini.camb.inmet.com References: Organization: Intermetrics, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dale Stanbrough (dale@cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote: : ... : Don't we just need to support dates in the same way we support time, : i.e. have a universal date (like GMT), and then supply localisation : routines which allow different locations to convert from/to local : calendars... : package Calendar; : package Calendar.Monotonic; : package Calendar.Monotonic.Gregorian : package Calendar.Monotonic.Julian; I presume you really mean Ada.Calendar... : etc. : Does making these children of (Ada.)Calendar aren't we locking it into : a framework where people can't extend the hierachy because "only compiler : developers are allowed to extend the Ada hierachy"? Users *are* allowed to add grandchildren to package Ada. They may not add "direct" children to package Ada (nor may vendors, for that matter) -- see RM95 A.2(4). : ... (yes, i know you can : do this with Gnat, but I think we need a solution for all compilers). This is not GNAT-specific. : Dale -- -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA USA An AverStar Company