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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:45:30 -0500

I've not been following this thread at all, so apologies if this has been brought up already.

No, but unclear if it's relevant.

The localization context should not (always) be taken from the user environment. In systems like web-based services, the context will instead be relative to the person/entity making the remote request, so we have to be able to explicitly specify the localization context, or at least query, modify, and restore some global context.

Sure. So the interface may be different. The main argument (that you shouldn't be using t.year() to format dates) remains the same.

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