YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 26/03/2014 01:19, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 03/25/2014 05:58 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
>> One of my roles on this newsgroup is to periodically whine about
>> stupidities in the Python datetime module.  This is one of those times.
>>
>> I have some code which computes how long ago the sun set.  Being a nice
>> pythonista, I'm using a timedelta to represent this value.  It would be
>> difficult to imagine a less useful default way to print a timedelta:
>>
>> previous sunset: -1 day, 22:25:26.295993
>>
>> The idea of str() is that it's supposed to return a human-friendly
>> representation of a value.  Humans do not say things like, "The sun set
>> 1 day ago plus 22 hours and 25 minutes".
>
> I'm not sure whether to admire you for your stick-to-it-iveness, or pity
> you for the plight you are in.  Either the first or second time I hit a
> datetime WTF moment I wrote my own wrapper classes.
>

dateutils for me.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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