From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,37e6dbf5e31f6da0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Software Engineering News Brief Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194841304 references: <55nqea$32a@news2.delphi.com> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: tmoran said " It's also incorrect. Ada, like any other general purpose programming language, of course lets programmers encode dates any way they please. Ada *does* have a standard Calendar.Time type with a Year from 1901 through 2099, which any product calling itself a validated Ada compiler is required to support. So programmers will usually find it simpler to use the standard than to 'roll their own' internal encoding. The standard says nothing about external, human readable input/output formats, however, and as an international standard it could hardly demand conformance to, say, "MM/DD/YY" or "Fifth Day of November, Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Six". ;)" A specific example is that in GNAT, the ali files use time stamps that have a YY representation for the year. It is an interesting indication of how people are sensitized to the year 2000 feature that now two people evaluating GNAT have worried that this means that GNAT has a year 2000 problem (it does not :-)