Re: Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ?

[reinkor <reinkor@gmail.com>]

On 24 Mar, 11:07, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> On 24 Mar, 08:51, reinkor <rein...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > What is the "natural"/best way to make an Ada program
> > treat time/calendar data in UTC ?  The quetion is about
> > treating old measurements/data tagged with UTC time.
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> > I use
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> >   Offset : Constant Time_Offset := UTC_Time_Offset;
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> > and include "Time_Zone=>Offset" in calendar routines
> > (for example in the functions Time_Of, Split, Value
> > within  the packages Ada.Calendar.Formatting and
> > Ada.Calendar.Time_Zones).
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> > I find this a but "artificial". How should one do it?
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> > reinert
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> Dmitry raises some issue which I'm sure the ARG are looking at but you
> _might_ be perfectly ok if all you're doing reading log files, etc and
> not actually trying to combine this with a clock your program is
> reading and expecting them to tie together with the time on your wrist
> watch. And if your log didn't come from a run over summer-time
> changes, leap seconds etc on an OS that actually dealt with such
> things.
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> Cheers
> -- Martin

So you say that if I make sure nobody runs my program code
on an advanced computer over summer-time changes, leap seconds etc
- my program may go correct ?

reinert