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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada, calendar, and daylight savings
Date: 28 Oct 2001 17:53:24 -0600
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In article <3BDC97CE.8070304@acm.org>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes:
> I've been looking at calendar issues in Ada, I'm trying to write a 
> complete calendar package for Ada.  I'm trying to understand how 
> daylight savings works in Ada.Calendar.
> 
> An average day has 86_400 seconds (24 * 3600).  However, the day where 
> daylight savings time is activated would seem to have 82_800 seconds (23 
> * 3600) and the day where daylight savings time is deactivated, as just 
> happened in the US, would seem to have 90_000 seconds (25 * 3600).

If you choose to reset your clock in response to legislative initiatives,
you should reset your Ada calendar as well.

Daylight savings time is just a manipulation of a time zone, and time
zones are outside the Ada Calendar package, aren't they ?