[Numpy-discussion] Improve Numpy Datetime Functionality for Gsoc

[Ralf Gommers]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> The most recent discussion about datetime64 was back in March and April of
> last year:
>
> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2014-March/thread.html#69554
>
> http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/numpy-discussion/2014-April/thread.html#69774
>
> In addition to unfortunate timezone handling, datetime64 has a lot of bugs
> -- so many that I don't bother reporting them. But if anyone ever plans on
> working on them, I can certainly help to assemble a long list of the issues
> (many of these are mentioned in the above threads).
>
> Unfortunately, though I would love to see datetime64 fixed, I'm not really
> a suitable mentor for this role (I don't know C),
>

Hi Stephan, thanks for at least considering to mentor. It's always possible
to help out as a secondary mentor - even if you don't know C, you could
provide valuable feedback because unlike most numpy devs you're actually
*using* datetime64.

Cheers,
Ralf
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