[Python-Dev] Date and timetypes (was: Fixed-decimal types)

[Andy Robinson]

Sorry, should have replied to the list...

--- Andy Robinson <captainrobbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:37:18 -0800 (PST)
> From: Andy Robinson <captainrobbo@yahoo.com>
> Reply-to: andy@robanal.demon.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Date and timetypes (was:
> Fixed-decimal types)
> To: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
> 
> --- Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
> wrote:
> > I don't know much about date/time types, or about
> > mxDateTime.
> > My intuition is that there are too many ways to do
> > it, and that being
> > compatible with commercial databases may not be
> the
> > right way to do it
> > for core Python.
> > 
> 
> OK.  Let me rephrase it.  Say we form a consensus on
> 'the right way'.  Are you amenable to some solution
> which goes back before 1970 and after 2038 going
> into
> the standard library?
> 
> And does your answer change if it involves some
> compiled code as well?  
> 
> I mention mxDateTime because it was agreed by a
> Python
> SIG, is mature and stable, and I find it very
> useful. 
> And the core type is pretty small - much of the
> helper
> stuff in the package now could be kept separate from
> the main Python distribution.  
> 
> - Andy
> 
> 
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