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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,cb2591a9113d8ee6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!carbon.eu.sun.com!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Dowie Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advice on Calendar.Time Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <1131465873.702910.143400@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1131475104.101511.297410@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1131480345.878386.71750@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host86-131-206-49.range86-131.btcentralplus.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com 1131487219 1621 86.131.206.49 (8 Nov 2005 22:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:00:19 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1131480345.878386.71750@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6301 Date: 2005-11-08T22:00:19+00:00 List-Id: REH wrote: > When dealing with timer resolutions, frequencies, and precisions, sure, > I agree. But I don't think there is anything that is, or should be, > OS-dependent with dates and time-of-day, or timezones, or GMT, or UTC, > or DST, or leap seconds, etc. These concepts are well defined and do > not change from platform to platform. The concepts might not change but the implementations do - hence the implementation permissions. Cheers -- Martin