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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Calendar and midnight
Date: 05 Aug 2004 15:01:14 +0200
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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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