From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and midnight
Date: 05 Aug 2004 15:01:14 +0200
Date: 2004-08-05T15:01:14+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <plk6wdkacl.fsf@sparre.crs4.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: sa4acx9ewff.fsf@snoopy.apana.org.au
Brian May wrote:
> According to documentation I have:
>
> subtype Day_Duration is Duration range 0.0 .. 86_400.0;
>
> How is midnight meant to be represented?
As 0.0 or 86_400.0 depending on which one of them you are talking
about.
> Why are both 0.0 and 86_400.0 defined to be legal values? Aren't
> they both the same thing (but one day apart)?
Yes.
It is not possible (in Ada) to define intervals that do not include
their end-points.
Jacob
--
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-05 10:00 ADA.CALENDAR and midnight Brian May
2004-08-05 11:06 ` Frank Piron
2004-08-05 11:19 ` Nick Roberts
2004-08-05 11:46 ` Brian May
2004-08-05 12:01 ` Jano
2004-08-05 12:15 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-08-05 23:18 ` Brian May
2004-08-06 5:59 ` Martin Dowie
2004-08-06 7:34 ` Gautier
2004-08-05 13:01 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
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