Re: Ada, calendar, and daylight savings

[tmoran@acm.org]

> How are you going to do this in Ada?  You can't without using
> non-standard constructs.
  It seems to me your problem is with your compiler vendor's
implementation, not with the language.  The ARM 9.6(24) says
"... as appropriate to an implementation defined timezone; ..."
You want that timezone to be UTC.  Why not just replace the
package body Ada.Calendar that your compiler supplies, with a
different one that returns UTC for Clock?  (A long time ago
my compiler vendor's Clock used the MSDOS 55 ms tick, which
was much to gross for my problem.  So I replaced his Ada.Calendar
body with one that used the PC's 8253 timer chip.  Not only was
it much finer, but it was much faster than a system call, so
profiling speeded up substantially. :)