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

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:38:49 +0100

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > What does a database app with the resulting tuple? > > It puts the values into struct fields for year, month, day, etc. > (Databases usually avoid using Unix ticks since these cause > the known problems with dates prior to 1970) Hm, I thought that databases have their own date/time types? Aren't these used?

At C level, interfacing is usually done using structs (ISO SQL/CLI defines these).

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