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On Friday, July 20, 2012 2:51:23 PM UTC-4, Simon Wright wrote:
> 
> It depends what you mean by &#39;epoch&#39;. If it&#39;s 1 Jan 1970 (as for Unix),
> then you should be aware that at the change to Ada 05 GNAT changed
> representations so that 1 Jan 1970 is no longer stored as 0.

Since I'm interfacing to C routines, I do mean 1-Jan-1970.

I do like your suggestion, it is much cleaner and I don't need to include either the Interfaces.C or Ada.Calendar.Conversions packages.

Thanks!