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On 03/15/2018 07:41 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 11:01:28 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
> Given the DOD origins of Ada, I'm rather surprised the native date format isn't "DDMMMYY" / "DD-MMM-YY[YY]" -- proper "military date" which is unambiguous (something you need for serialization/de-serialization) -- and perhaps have an optional "ISO 8601" child-package of Calendar w/ the 95 revision.

Ada 83 didn't have a "date format". String representations of dates were left up 
to the programmer. What it did have was Calendar.Time, which could be created 
from Year, Month, and Day numbers, each clearly labeled with what it 
represented, or queried/decomposed to obtain Year, Month, and Day numbers, again 
clearly labeled.

For the early 1980s, it was somewhat prescient in avoiding 2-digit years, 
something I recall liking when I first encountered the language.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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