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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Real_Time Vs. Ada.Calendar
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:56:03 +0000
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"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.