pep proposal : A date object for the standard library

[Andrew Dalke]

Greg Ewing:
>I suggest femtoseconds. It's the smallest time unit I've
>heard anyone talk about. If you need something smaller
>you're probably a bleeding-edge particle physicist with
>more things to worry about than finding a time module...

Some chemists work in attoseconds

http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2001/split/567%2D1.html

But I don't know if they need a time module.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com