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The conformity assessment ("validation") suite does not check this.
The tests involving Year_Number just check for correctness of range,
arithmetic operations,
relational operations, and the pre-defined functions of package
Ada.Calendar.

Philip W. Brashear
EDS Conformance Testing Center
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: W. Wesley Groleau x4923 [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:14 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: C date package
>
>
> > The standard package Ada.Calendar defines a type Time whose
> > internal implementation isn't specified by the language, but
> > currently (1995 edition of Ada) you can only access years in
> > the range 1901 .. 2099 for this type.
>
> How can/does the validation suite test this?  You certainly
> can't change
> the O.S. date to 2039!  Some compilers (I can't say how many)
> just use the
> O.S. time format for their private Calendar.Time
>
> But of course in 2037, they'll warn us the end of the world
> is soon, and
> in 2039 we'll have forgotten all about it.
>
> --
> Wes Groleau
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau
>

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