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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: FILETIME <-> Ada.Real_Time.Time conversions
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 06:17:17 GMT
Date: 2001-12-21T06:17:17+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <NtAU7.17459$Ah.627789@rwcrnsc52> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3c21f386.108560406@News.CIS.DFN.DE

> The real problem is that there is no correlation between epoch
> of Ada.Real_Time.Split and UTC.
  As I understand it, Ada.Real_Time basically tells you the
state of an increasing counter in your computer's hardware,
while UTC has to do with the position of the earth relative to
the sun.  A computer in a rocket passing Pluto cares about the
former, but not the latter, while a computer controlling
dropping the Times Square ball at New Year's Midnight cares
about UTC but not about its hardware counters.  Consider it
amazing that they correlate as highly as they do.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-21  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-18 12:53 FILETIME <-> Ada.Real_Time.Time conversions Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-19  9:02 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-12-19 13:37   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-19 15:06     ` Steve Doiel
2001-12-20 11:27       ` M. A. Alves
2001-12-20 15:10       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-21  3:13         ` Steve Doiel
2001-12-21 10:26           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-21 16:18             ` Steve Doiel
2001-12-24 18:02               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-21  6:17         ` tmoran [this message]
2001-12-21  8:51           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-21 18:17             ` tmoran
2001-12-24 15:59               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2001-12-24 18:21                 ` tmoran
2001-12-25 15:53                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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