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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-17 23:59:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Grein, Christoph" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:52:04 +0100 (MET) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1040198342 47146 137.194.161.2 (18 Dec 2002 07:59:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:59:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mail.eurocopter.com: uucp set sender to using -f Content-MD5: fS/fMRzXz4gJ7xuEx1xRPw== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.1 CDE Version 1.2.1 SunOS 5.6 sun4u sparc Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: "Grein, Christoph" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32005 Date: 2002-12-18T08:52:04+01:00 > ISO 8601 defines the first day of the week to be Monday, and this practice > is also quite widespread (it is the convention in the UK and much of Europe) > > Also ISO 8601 defines Monday to be day 1 and Sunday to be day 7 so I would > suggest forcing the representation to be 1..7, if this is not what > the languge defaults to. This also makes many of the date processing > functions slightly easier to understand. > > See: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html > for more information. > > Steven Murdoch. But still 'Pos (Monday) will return 0. Rep Specs don't affect the 'Pos and 'Val attributes.