[Numpy-discussion] GSOC 2014 : "Improve Numpy datetime functionality"

[Ralf Gommers]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:42 AM, faisal anees <
> mohammedfaisal.anees at students.iiit.ac.in> wrote:
>
>> I am Mohammed Faisal Anees , a Computer Science student at IIIT-
>> Hyderabad. I was going though the ideas page and I found "Improve Numpy
>> datetime functionality" really interesting ,
>>
>
> It's great to have the interest!
>
> One trick is that I dont hink there is a consensus on what needs to be
> done to "improve datetime".
>
> One thing that does need to be done is cleaning up time zone handling --
> and I think we ALMOST have consensus on how to do that (at least the quick
> fix part).
>
> Take a look for threads on this list in the last year about "datetime64"
> and this ticket:
>
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/3388
>
> (and search for other datetime64 tickets...)
>
> Note that we are hoping to fix that for 1.9 -- anyone have a time scale
> for that? Too soon for GSoC?
>

Yes too soon and no, unlikely to happen given that no one volunteered yet.
So seeing a solid GSoC proposal would be good.

Ralf
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