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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Ada.Real_Time Vs. Ada.Calendar
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:56:03 +0000
Date: 2006-11-23T05:56:03+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vel6aeq4.fsf@grendel.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: no%8h.246285$FQ1.155861@attbi_s71

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:

> In general, you can't count on them having any meaningful
> relationship. Real_Time may be a count of ticks since the program
> started, for example, while Calendar must be a date and time CE.

And I don't think it would be right to expect the relationship to be
constant, either -- Ada.Calendar might be synchronised with an
external time shource and might not be monotonic, whereas Real_Time
ought to be monotonic.



      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-23  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22 15:24 Ada.Real_Time Vs. Ada.Calendar markp
2006-11-22 17:02 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-23  5:56   ` Simon Wright [this message]
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