[Python-ideas] Reduce platform dependence of date and time related functions

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:49 PM, <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

> I propose supplying pure-python implementations (in accordance with PEP
> 399) for the entire datetime module
>

We already have that in python 3.x:

http://bugs.python.org/issue7989

I believe it still has some platform dependencies through the time module.

The idea to provide pure python implementation of the time module was
proposed and rejected:

http://bugs.python.org/issue9528

If you would like to improve cross-platform compatibility in this area, I
would start with re-implementation of strftime().  See

http://bugs.python.org/issue3173
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