[Python-Dev] Interop between datetime and mxDateTime (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:13:00 -0500

On the other hand, I guess just the existance of a "timetuple()" method is as good an indicator as any.

Good point.

But timetuple() is also the proposal's weakness, because you don't know in which timezone it is expressed.

I think utctimetuple() would be more useful -- mxDateTime can support that, and so can datetime, when a tzinfo object is given. You could fall back on timetuple() if utctimetuple() doesn't exist.

(Hm, I just found that utctimetuple() returns the same as timetuple() when the tzinfo is None -- that doesn't seem right.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)