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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 14:47:10 CEST 2012

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:

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

Timeouts, performance measurement, that kind of thing. Mostly timescales of less than an hour, and usually less than a minute.

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).

Yup, that's what I meant, too.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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