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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada, calendar, and daylight savings
Date: 30 Oct 2001 06:29:49 -0600
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In article <3BDE0B8D.6040409@acm.org>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:

> But what if I want a portable package that does this, one that works 
> with multiple compilers?  Surely portability should be one of Ada's 
> strengths.

I am not sure what you are expecting when the underlying operating
system has no notion of the difference between Time and UTC.

If you want a constant offset, your portable could supply that
constant.