[Python-Dev] datetime +/- scalars (int, long, float)?

[Jack Jansen]

On dinsdag, maart 5, 2002, at 08:25 , Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I think I want to introduce a new concept, closely related to local
> time, that I'll dub "naive time" for now.  In naive time, there is no
> timezone and there is no DST.  To compensate for DST, you have to
> manually change the clock, which is an action outside the system,
> unknown to the system, and irrelevant to the working of the system.
> Ditto to change time zones.

This sounds like an absolutely brilliant idea! And I think that 
if you keep the equivalent of the tm_isdst bit you can get all 
the conversions working too. And it fits the model: I have a 
naive tm_isdst bit in my head on that one night per year (if it 
hasn't been lost in partying yet:-).

Hmm, and possibly you want a function discontinuity(t1, t2) that 
will return 0 normally but something else (a value in seconds? 
Then it could even be used for leap seconds by the real 
die-hards) if there's a time discontinuity between t1 and t2.
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