From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch)
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:29:00 +0200
Date: 2012-07-24T22:29:00+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fq4ybb6k7upt$.1nufpl4tnqji7.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.whyufbaska8ora@aspire.local
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 23:43:49 +0400, Vasiliy Molostov wrote:
> Probably and personally, I don't prefer to convert between representations
> and catch one or two hour diffs, instead I prefer to do calculations
> better done with monotonic time, and then convert result to the required
> representation.
This is the only right way to do it.
> Converting from some representation into authoritative monotonic time is
> "mission impossibe", since important data may be lost, because this
> important data belongs entirely to the representation, and can not be
> expressed in monotonic authoritative source.
Possible, but under two conditions:
1. the corresponding time sources are synchronized;
2. the representation is sane (anything but political time).
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2012-07-23 21:42 Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch) erlo
2012-07-23 22:07 ` Adam Beneschan
[not found] ` <5s8s08lv6dj1i4tkb99roq9roifsgr44vd@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-07-24 7:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 7:50 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 8:34 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 12:27 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 13:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 14:10 ` erlo
2012-07-24 16:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 7:24 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 16:26 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 18:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 19:07 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-07-24 20:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 19:43 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-24 20:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-07-24 21:22 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 6:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25 7:04 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25 8:05 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 8:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-25 8:45 ` Vasiliy Molostov
2012-07-25 9:30 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 20:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-25 10:14 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-25 13:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-07-24 7:37 ` erlo.haugen
2012-07-24 11:34 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 11:59 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-07-24 15:08 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 16:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-24 19:25 ` Simon Wright
2012-07-24 22:07 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-07-24 19:17 ` John B. Matthews
2012-07-25 2:23 ` sla29970
2012-07-25 6:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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