[Python-Dev] datetime module enhancements

[Christian Heimes]

Collin Winter schrieb:
> I can't say I'm well-versed in the intricacies of date/time issues,
> but what you say makes sense. This is exactly why I brought this patch
> up here : )

Oh h...! Seems like I've opened a can of worms here. I only wanted to
add some minor enhancements and now it looks like the improvements and
the datetime module have to be carefully defined and PEPed.

I'm trying to summarize the discussed issues and proposals:

 * Change the underlying time_t type (Unix timestamp) to use a unsigned
64bit integer even on 32 bit operating systems.

 * Carefully define the comparison between date and datetime objects.

 * int(timedelta) and float(timedelta) returns seconds

 * Add methods to datetime to cast from/to Julian Date Number (also MJD
and RJD)

 * What about moving the C extension to _datetime so we can implement
some non time consuming extensions in Python?

 * What do you think about including PyTz in the Python core? PyTz is
really, REALLY useful when one has to deal with time zones.
http://pytz.sourceforge.net/

 * The dateutil package contains additional features which may prove as
useful: http://labix.org/python-dateutil

Christian