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Subject: Re: function Clock return Time; Time is a number, a string...?
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In Ada it is a private maybe numeric type or it could be something else  
and in the Ada.Calendar package their are other routines that convert this 
private type to other type that a program can use. 

To use:

--
-- tt.adb
--
with Ada.Calendar ;
use  Ada.Calendar ;

with Text_IO ;
use Text_IO ;

with Ada.Integer_Text_IO ;
use Ada.Integer_Text_IO ;

procedure tt is

  Clock_Value : Time := Clock ;

begin 

  Put ( "Date => " ) ;

  Put ( Year ( Clock_Value ), 4 ) ;

  Put ( '/' ) ;

  if Month ( Clock_Value ) < 10 then
    Put ( '0' ) ;
  end if ;
  Put ( Month ( Clock_Value ), 1 ) ;

  Put ( '/' ) ;

  if Day ( Clock_Value ) < 10 then
    Put ( '0' ) ;
  end if ;
  Put ( Day ( Clock_Value ), 1 ) ;
  New_Line ;

end ;


In <1194388351.937058.41110@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,  j.khaldi@oltrelinux.com writes:
>In "package Ada.Calendar"..
>function Clock return Time; // what is the type of Time here?
>A string? A number? Something else?
>"Time" has been declarated "private", this means it is untyped yet;
>In other words, if I had to call the the function Year with the
>argument Date, how should I do:
>Date := The_Date; // for example: 11 dicember 2004
>GetYear := Year(Date);
>Thanks!
>
>Jilani
>