From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program?
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2021 09:27:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sh1rha$14d6$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c1e4f8bf-f3f0-4a14-b057-37f330461f9cn@googlegroups.com
On 2021-09-05 08:56, reinert wrote:
> Anybody with good ideas on how (in a simplest possible way) to avoid to confuse between representation of time as seconds, minutes, hours and days in an Ada program?
Just use the standard type Duration.
> It is somewhere in my program natural/human to think in seconds whereas minutes or hours feels more natural at other places (so the numerics is "human"). Example to illustrate: heart rate is "natural" to give in number per minute (not in number per second, hour or day). Time on work is normally given by hours (not seconds) etc..
The user interface is responsible to convert anything to Duration and back.
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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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2021-09-05 6:56 Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? reinert
2021-09-05 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2021-09-05 12:42 ` Niklas Holsti
2021-09-06 7:20 ` ldries46
2021-09-06 9:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-09-06 13:06 ` ldries46
2021-09-06 13:43 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-09-06 14:13 ` ldries46
2021-09-06 15:10 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2021-09-06 15:55 ` AdaMagica
2021-09-08 22:00 ` Shark8
2021-10-24 6:52 ` reinert
2021-10-24 7:24 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-24 10:39 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2021-10-24 10:08 ` G.B.
2021-10-24 10:48 ` Simon Wright
2021-10-24 12:09 ` Björn Lundin
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