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,aa60d56d22a287d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news.k-dsl.de!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Q: How to program in UTC (time/calendar) ? Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: jsj6/wjO/cHSAHkcGxcp1Q.user.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:38:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.7 X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Cancel-Lock: sha1:VlfVZxhTV/OvbL01amawB37i0WA= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4324 Date: 2009-03-26T01:38:13+00:00 List-Id: >I know this is what Windows[1] does, but it isn't what a Real OS (tm) >would do What do you mean by "this"? If you mean that a "Real OS (tm)" can tell where the computer it's running on is located, or what the politicians have decided about Daylight Savings time, without being told, that's quite magical. You still haven't said how today's clock time relates to your processing of time-stamped historical data.