Re: Inspiration for a better calendar package?

[JDECS <Merlin43PhD@Netscape.Net>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:16:19 -0600, JDECS wrote:
> 
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>>> It was silly for Ada 2005 to define time arithmetic
>>> in terms of political time.
> 
>> No, not silly, necessity, although not well compartmentalized.
> 
> Silly because they could easily define arithmetic on UTC, providing
> conversions to the political time. This could be made in an *unambiguous*
> way. Instead of that they defined arithmetic on political time. That just
> cannot work, mathematically cannot.
Essentially agreed, as in the original. Please forgive a certain tongue-in-cheek. I have never had any problem with UTC or even absolute Cesium raw data, but the % of us who understand that what time it is is downtown Chicago, USA is neither relevant nor interesting is vanishingly small.
> 
> I don't know their motivations. After all, I know no processor+main board
> combination which had "political clock" hardware. Maybe some BIOS clock?
> But BIOS clock would be unusable anyway...
> 
Meh, my personal BIOS clock is well used.

Best regards,
=DSM=