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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada, calendar, and daylight savings
Date: 29 Oct 2001 04:21:59 -0600
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In article <3BDCEEFF.10409@acm.org>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:
> I won't argue about the goofiness of our time system, since I can't do 
> anything about that :-).
> 
> Hopefully, missiles in flight are using UTC.  It makes no sense to use 
> anything else.  However, you have no portable way of finding UTC in Ada. 

Just ask for the time to be returned.

If your computer happens to be set to some unreliable source,
such as my watch, then you are at _least_ 5 minutes off from
_anybody's_ notion of time.  That is no longer a programming problem.

Please don't burden Ada.Calendar with illogical constructs.