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package Ada.Calendar is

   type Time is private;

   --  Declarations representing limits of allowed local time values. Note that
   --  these do NOT constrain the possible stored values of time which may well
   --  permit a larger range of times (this is explicitly allowed in Ada 95).

   subtype Year_Number  is Integer range 1901 .. 2099;
   subtype Month_Number is Integer range 1 .. 12;
   subtype Day_Number   is Integer range 1 .. 31;

   subtype Day_Duration is Duration range 0.0 .. 86_400.0;

   function Clock return Time;

   function Year    (Date : Time) return Year_Number;
   function Month   (Date : Time) return Month_Number;
   function Day     (Date : Time) return Day_Number;
   function Seconds (Date : Time) return Day_Duration;

   procedure Split
     (Date    : Time;
      Year    : out Year_Number;
      Month   : out Month_Number;
      Day     : out Day_Number;
      Seconds : out Day_Duration);

   function Time_Of
     (Year    : Year_Number;
      Month   : Month_Number;
      Day     : Day_Number;
      Seconds : Day_Duration := 0.0) return Time;
   --  GNAT Note: Normally when procedure Split is called on a Time value
   --  result of a call to function Time_Of, the out parameters of procedure
   --  Split are identical to the in parameters of function Time_Of. However,
   --  when a non-existent time of day is specified, the values for Seconds
   --  may or may not be different. This may happen when Daylight Saving Time
   --  (DST) is in effect, on the day when switching to DST, if Seconds
   --  specifies a time of day in the hour that does not exist. For example,
   --  in New York:
   --
   --    Time_Of (Year => 1998, Month => 4, Day => 5, Seconds => 10740.0)
   --
   --  will return a Time value T. If Split is called on T, the resulting
   --  Seconds may be 14340.0 (3:59:00) instead of 10740.0 (2:59:00 being
   --  a time that not exist).

   function "+" (Left : Time;     Right : Duration) return Time;
   function "+" (Left : Duration; Right : Time)     return Time;
   function "-" (Left : Time;     Right : Duration) return Time;
   function "-" (Left : Time;     Right : Time)     return Duration;

   function "<"  (Left, Right : Time) return Boolean;
   function "<=" (Left, Right : Time) return Boolean;
   function ">"  (Left, Right : Time) return Boolean;
   function ">=" (Left, Right : Time) return Boolean;

   Time_Error : exception;

private
   pragma Inline (Clock);

   pragma Inline (Year);
   pragma Inline (Month);
   pragma Inline (Day);

   pragma Inline ("+");
   pragma Inline ("-");

   pragma Inline ("<");
   pragma Inline ("<=");
   pragma Inline (">");
   pragma Inline (">=");

   --  Time is represented as a signed duration from the base point which is
   --  what Unix calls the EPOCH (i.e. 12 midnight (24:00:00), Dec 31st, 1969,
   --  or if you prefer 0:00:00 on Jan 1st, 1970). Since Ada allows dates
   --  before this EPOCH value, the stored duration value may be negative.

   --  The time value stored is typically a GMT value, as provided in standard
   --  Unix environments. If this is the case then Split and Time_Of perform
   --  required conversions to and from local times. The range of times that
   --  can be stored in Time values depends on the declaration of the type
   --  Duration, which must at least cover the required Ada range represented
   --  by the declaration of Year_Number, but may be larger (we take full
   --  advantage of the new permission in Ada 95 to store time values outside
   --  the range that would be acceptable to Split). The Duration type is a
   --  real value representing a time interval in seconds.

   type Time is new Duration;

end Ada.Calendar;