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

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:01:12 -0500


Guido van Rossum writes:

10pm EST has a different feel to it than one sent at 4am MET. It should sort on UTC, but it should use the original timezone to display the dates.

Sounds like a user preference, not a universal truth.

Is it important that the timezone is part of the date/time type, though? Is it important that it be part of the abstract base date/time?

Specific implementations should certainly be able to add support for timezones, and perhaps some hypothetical default date/time type should include it for convenience, but that doesn't tell me it's fundamental.

-Fred

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