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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:29:36 -0500

Idiosyncratic formats for user-visible number/currency/date/time info is going to become an increasingly Bad Idea on other OSes too.

Oh, so it'll be at least another 10 years before the same wisdom reaches the typical web application... :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)