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

Barry A. Warsaw barry@zope.com
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:48:24 -0500

"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

>> 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.

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

Doesn't Java have separate formatting objects? You decide which format object you need based on the localication context, then you pass in the timestamp/date/money/whatever thingie and the format object knowws how to render that data representation in the appropriate localization.

makes-sense-to-me-ly y'rs, -Barry