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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and NTP (and Unix Epoch)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:14:44 +0100
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> Of course, if you are worried about leap seconds, you are in for a
> world of pain either way.

But since the time received via NTP is UTC *now* and
Ada.Calendar.Time_Zones.UTC_Time_Offset allows you to convert
Ada.Calendar.Clock times to UTC *now*, I think you should ignore all
posts about political time vs GMT vs UTC.

Unless you are really concerned about time intervals of years.