Re: Getting current date and time

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> Still, I don't know how to portably get the number of seconds in the
> Unix epoch (for example, now is 1185221230). The built-in Duration
> type is not guaranteed to have the necessary range.  How to solve
> it?

It sounds like your program is intended to run on POSIX systems, so
why don't you use the appropriate POSIX functions?

declare
   use POSIX.Calendar;
   Wish : POSIX.Seconds;
begin
   Wish := POSIX.Get_Seconds (Time => To_Timespec (Date => Clock));
end;

Greetings,

Jacob
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