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"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message 
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> "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> I tend to think of the Real_Time package as the one to use when you
>> are timing events and the Calendar package as the one to use when
>> you don't care about precise timing and want the time of day for
>> reporting, etc.
>
> It used to be the case with GNAT that there was an amazing similarity
> between these two clocks! Looking on 5.02a1, on a first glance it
> seems that Real_Time is derived as follows (the first two letters are
> the encoding in the distribution, eg if building on NT the file
> s-taprop.adb is copied from 5wtaprop.adb).
>
[snip]

It would also be interesting to know whether there is a difference in the 
time base for Ada.Calendar and Ada.Real_Time for the different systems.

Steve
(The Duck)


>
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