From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!news-out.netnews.com!news.alt.net!fdc2.netnews.com!peer01.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:10:49 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 11:10:49 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <9jbcjgpc5mqo8e9eojc3pbs13vtpejm9pl@4ax.com> References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-VjeaD2z1s4xW0EN/FVHjBSJBPudAf4yMwlfF8nCvA3izA9/RFIkZGqKM4bmN+KwCsYHHrR4r4pVCHAY!tl1IYX1gEdERxnTK6NTXFy0JQQkiUsFOUMiq6EtCl9hhBA/HbHw22Fr6Wcyu5gnn/njYyL5x X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html 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: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2061 X-Received-Bytes: 2240 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62659 List-Id: On Mon, 6 Sep 2021 16:13:36 +0200, ldries46 declaimed the following: >100mm high. That is the reason that I ask for a package which solves >this problem for once and always and still gives the user the >possibility to use all kind of dimesions So... a reimplementation of the HP-48 UNITS module... Which requires all values to have a unit designation attached (eg: 1.6_km) and internally probably tracks the input unit but converts to base (SI) units for computations, then remaps to user input units for display. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/