[Python-Dev] proposal: add basic time type to the standard library (original) (raw)

Jim Fulton jim@zope.com
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 14:53:49 -0500

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

jim wrote: > BTW, has there been any progress on this? the current pepoid proposal is here: http://effbot.org/ideas/time-type.htm major issues right now is 1. should the type know about timezones (probably not),

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Doesn't the proposal sort of imply time-zone awareness of some kind? Or does it simply imply UT storage?

and 2. should it support basic arithmetics (probably yes).

Does this imply leap second hell, or will we simply be vague about expectations?

I'd also like to see simple access methods for year, month, day, hours, minutes, and seconds, with date parts being one based and time parts being zero based.

Jim

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