Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program?

From	"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.ada
Subject	Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program?
Date	2021-09-05 09:27 +0200
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On 2021-09-05 08:56, reinert wrote:
> Anybody with good ideas on how (in a simplest possible way) to avoid to confuse between representation of time as seconds, minutes, hours and days in an Ada program?

Just use the standard type Duration.

> It is somewhere in my program natural/human to think in seconds whereas  minutes or hours feels more natural at other places (so the numerics is "human"). Example to illustrate: heart rate is "natural" to give in number per minute (not in number per second, hour or day). Time on work is normally given by hours (not seconds) etc..

The user interface is responsible to convert anything to Duration and back.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? reinert <reinkor@gmail.com> - 2021-09-04 23:56 -0700
  Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2021-09-05 09:27 +0200
    Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> - 2021-09-05 15:42 +0300
    Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl> - 2021-09-06 09:20 +0200
      Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2021-09-06 11:47 +0200
        Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl> - 2021-09-06 15:06 +0200
          Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> - 2021-09-06 15:43 +0200
            Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? ldries46 <bertus.dries@planet.nl> - 2021-09-06 16:13 +0200
              Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-09-06 11:10 -0400
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      Re: Trivial question: how to avoid confusing sec, min, hour and day in a program? "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> - 2021-10-24 09:24 +0200
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