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From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@iris16.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
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Subject: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 10:11:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> But I still believe that there is hope that this may change
> over time. I think that the Ada standards need to move beyond
> the focus of the embedded market to the business and general
> purpose use to improve its acceptability.  Give us a _PROPER_
> Ada.Calendar package for a start! (can't determine the day of
> the week for example)

http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/adapilotresources/basic_tools/calenday.ads

which is ready to be built into ada.calendar of gnat for Ada2005.
Of course only after finding a common consensus about the most 
useful spec. :-)
I am ready to accept suggestions.

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