[Python-Dev] datetime module enhancements (original) (raw)

Collin Winter collinw at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 15:50:50 CET 2007

On 3/9/07, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Collin Winter schrieb: > I can't say I'm well-versed in the intricacies of date/time issues, > but what you say makes sense. This is exactly why I brought this patch > up here : )

Oh h...! Seems like I've opened a can of worms here. I only wanted to add some minor enhancements and now it looks like the improvements and the datetime module have to be carefully defined and PEPed. I'm trying to summarize the discussed issues and proposals: * Change the underlying timet type (Unix timestamp) to use a unsigned 64bit integer even on 32 bit operating systems. * Carefully define the comparison between date and datetime objects. * int(timedelta) and float(timedelta) returns seconds * Add methods to datetime to cast from/to Julian Date Number (also MJD and RJD) * What about moving the C extension to datetime so we can implement some non time consuming extensions in Python? * What do you think about including PyTz in the Python core? PyTz is really, REALLY useful when one has to deal with time zones. http://pytz.sourceforge.net/ * The dateutil package contains additional features which may prove as useful: http://labix.org/python-dateutil

Here's another one for the list, trawled off SF: patch #1118748 (http://python.org/sf/1118748). It proposes to add the ability to add/subtract time and timedelta objects.

Collin Winter

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