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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Inspiration for a better calendar package?
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On Dec 9, 9:48=A0am, Jacob Sparre Andersen <spa...@nbi.dk> wrote:
> The last issue of RISKS included a link to a Haskell calendar package:
>
> =A0 =A0http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/time/Data-Time-C=
loc...
>
> This seems to take the problems related to different kinds of time
> measures slightly more seriously than Ada.Calendar. =A0Should it be
> inspiration for the 201X version of Ada.Calendar?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jacob
> --
> "You've got to build bypasses!"

Sorry, I must be missing something...

Ada.Calendar, Ada.Calendar.Arithmetic and Ada.Calender.Time_Zones
already seem to provide all this (and more!).

Can you elaborate on what you think is better about the Haskell
version?

Cheers
-- Martin