Incorporating Time in the New World of Computing Systems. The New World of Computing System, referred to as the New World system, is a total system for the structuring, manipulation and communication of information.
Time is a ubiquitous aspect of most databases.
The aim of this thesis is to study the problems associated with the implementation of time in the New World system. Time information is not only stored in New World, they can be retrieved and processed to answer various types of user queries. This is an additional feature as compared to most models of time implementation in databases where the relationships between time intervals are not dealt with. To start with, ways of representing time in the form of floating point number are devised and discussed. Then the conversion of time information from its various user accustomed forms to New World system internal form and back are explored.