From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ee78aab9bfd2fe2a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.trueband.net!news.trueband.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:16:33 -0600 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Followup-To: comp.lang.ada From: JDECS Subject: Re: Inspiration for a better calendar package? Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:16:19 -0600 References: <873agxd6i1.fsf@nbi.dk> <12gqldae49yoe$.1sf2zlz1fthvh.dlg@40tude.net> Organization: JD Educational Computing Services User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-AnMNBNLbLZbZkclKRZ3KVWdU9Z5R3P3YX6x6RENlVrKH1zN8QiYBMkDgeW6BVwA/wYSit7rsnCTyDAK!gYN65yn1ve27eD7xBhGHBUhnR1zV4WcQWj+ZZMIpJ/QDp7KlDfiGdEOBiwxF8bOnfQerMfYSflPo!RmbzBjJCJ7sUWTV+eWk0QgfC2g== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:3915 Date: 2008-12-09T09:16:19-06:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > As for Ada.Calendar I doubt there should be any. It is a burden inherited > from Ada 83. We just do not need political time otherwise than for > formatted text output. Please pardon the insertion from a mere mechanic in the world of physics and former (shudder) COBOL programmer who has dealt with a $#!+-load of politicians. [I agree, in a certain quantum way, with the above assertion!] > It was silly for Ada 2005 to define time arithmetic > in terms of political time. No, not silly, necessity, although not well compartmentalized. > Especially because there simply is no way to > define such arithmetic. Since political time increment "+" is not a > function of its arguments! ROFLMAO! Absolutely! Politicians have neither understanding of, nor its consequence, respect for, human time. (Now, when you get into the aspect of time quanta, there is a *lot* of leverage in the space between!)