Hi Steve:
Since this is a broader topic, I have changed the subject line.
On 2008-09-02 02:14+0100 Schwartz, Steven J wrote:
> Alan,
> Your approach in example 29 is to use the TZ environment variable to trick
your computer into thinking that it is in a UTC timezone. This doesn't work
on all pl
Alan,
If I may be allowed to widen this discussion from Ada to "time," I still think
there are underlying issues that should at least be discussed. As I said a few
weeks back, we have a vested interest in this matter because time plays a
critical element in data from spacecraft, and because we
On 2008-09-01 14:58-0700 Jerry wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Does the Ada example, with xmin hardcoded to 1_133_395_200.0,
> generate the same Postscript as the C example?
The current Ada example 29 code has
xmin := 1133395200.0;
(no underscores), and yes, that hard-coded value gives identical results t
Andrew,
Does the Ada example, with xmin hardcoded to 1_133_395_200.0,
generate the same Postscript as the C example? (I can't test this on
my machine because the C example doesn't work correctly, as I
discussed earlier.)
Jerry
On Sep 1, 2008, at 12:11 AM, Andrew Ross wrote:
>
> Jerry,
>
I am happy to announce we now have complete OCaml bindings and complete
non-interactive OCaml standard examples which give a clean ctest compare
result for all platforms accessible to Hez, Andrew, and me. I have changed
the OCaml paragraphs in README.release accordingly. Also in order to
encourage
Jerry,
The problem is that Time_Of is in local time. The UK was on daylight
saving time on 1st Jan 1970, and so my reference is 1 hour out. Most
time zones with no DST in operation will give the correct value. I'd
overlook this possibility when I first wrote the C version. That's why
we had to ch
