From: sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ?
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:55:57 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2009-03-25T14:55:57-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b388ac10-9a49-4d9f-bc52-eac47085b3ac@37g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: gqdii8$fnq$1@aioe.org
On Mar 25, 3:28 pm, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> Ada.Calendar.Clock can only give your program a reading of the
> computer's clock. If you keep changing the computer's clock as you
> travel, you will need to inform the data logging program of each change in
> UTC offset. The simpler approach would be to set the computer's clock to
> UTC at the beginning of the trip and not change it as you travel.
I know this is what Windows[1] does, but it isn't what a Real OS (tm)
would do (I know there are problems if you dual-boot with Windows and
a real OS, better to use VMware running on your native OS perhaps).
[1] Has Vista been fixed in this respect?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-25 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 8:51 Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ? reinkor
2009-03-24 9:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-03-24 10:07 ` Martin
2009-03-24 10:55 ` reinkor
2009-03-24 12:49 ` Martin
2009-03-24 18:53 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-03-24 23:59 ` Martin
2009-03-25 10:21 ` reinkor
2009-03-25 15:28 ` tmoran
2009-03-25 21:55 ` sjw [this message]
2009-03-26 1:38 ` tmoran
2009-03-26 20:58 ` sjw
2009-03-27 12:52 ` reinkor
2009-03-27 16:58 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-30 11:27 ` reinkor
2009-03-30 16:47 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-30 12:37 ` reinkor
2009-03-30 13:45 ` John B. Matthews
2009-03-30 16:52 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2009-03-30 19:34 ` reinkor
2009-03-30 19:44 ` reinkor
2009-04-04 2:22 ` Brian Gaffney
2009-03-24 11:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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