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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee78aab9bfd2fe2a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.trueband.net!news.trueband.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:04:47 -0600 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Followup-To: comp.lang.ada From: JDECS Subject: Re: Inspiration for a better calendar package? Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:04:17 -0600 References: <873agxd6i1.fsf@nbi.dk> <12gqldae49yoe$.1sf2zlz1fthvh.dlg@40tude.net> <3s3wen7fkjj4$.ynij6r34qpzk$.dlg@40tude.net> Organization: JD Educational Computing Services User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-gapHtDAX0N7OHeKjD7zJE+CQ4zKrrrR94JVcOLrEXDuNDuPqR6LoAbLbltDZAqt9g/UVjFOse+ucGWH!OuhdzndrOD7+3G4UoUZqkQQgkPQLVFsCw2bnJAOelUbJi87WwdPkKRB3bhpZ0tRtuRZe2ZUyxb+N!7mUIcGXdUP3x1KUidYqh0t2cxQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2946 Date: 2008-12-09T11:04:17-06:00 List-Id: 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=