[Python-Dev] Issue 2736: datetimes and Unix timestamps (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Mon Jun 4 14🔞42 CEST 2012

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

My perspective is that if I'm dealing with strictly absolute time, I should only need one import: datetime

If I'm dealing strictly with relative time, I should also only need one import: time

Can you define "relative time" here? The term makes me think of things like timedelta.

Personally, I would really like not having to think about the time module at all, except if I wanted to go low-level (e.g. get a Unix timestamp from scratch).

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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