Re: Advice on Calendar.Time

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

<brian.b.mcguinness@lmco.com> wrote in message
news:1131565063.972303.313350@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> So one approach would be to use Ada.Calendar.Time_Zones as Martin
> suggested, e.g. get
> the time of day from Clock, using Split to divide it into year, month,
> day, and second, then get the time offset (in minutes) from
> UTC_Time_Offset, and convert to GMT accordingly.  But the question
> remains of how to deal with leap seconds.  (And why does
> UTC_Time_Offset return a value in minutes rather than seconds, which
> would make it more compatible with Split?)

Because it's a separate strongly typed parameter to Split. You're supposed
to directly Split the time value into the parts, not try to adjust them
later. Nor are you supposed to add or subtract this value from a Time
object. (There were some members of the ARG who were very opposed to any
such semantics.)

                         Randy.