[Python-Dev] PEP 410 (Decimal timestamp): the implementation is ready for a review (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Feb 14 22:27:27 CET 2012

On Feb 13, 2012, at 07:33 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Oh, I forgot to mention my main concern about datetime: many functions returning timestamp have an undefined starting point (an no timezone information ), and so cannot be converted to datetime: - time.clock(), time.wallclock(), time.monotonic(), time.clockgettime() (except for CLOCKREALTIME) - time.clockgetres() - signal.get/setitimer() - os.wait3(), os.wait4(), resource.getrusage() - etc.

That's not strictly true though, is it? E.g. clock_gettime() returns the number of seconds since the Epoch, which is a well-defined start time at least on *nix systems. So clearly those types of functions could return datetimes.

I'm fairly certain that between those types of functions and timedeltas you could have most of the bases covered.

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