[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

[Mark Lawrence]

On 27/07/2015 15:45, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 28 July 2015 at 00:27, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Am I the only one feeling like this entire thread should be moved to
>> python-ideas at this point?
>
> Since this is an area where the discussion of implementation details
> and the discussion of the developer experience can easily end up at
> cross purposes, I'm wondering if there may be value in actually
> splitting those two discussions into different venues by creating a
> datetime-sig, and specifically inviting the pytz and dateutil
> developers to participate in the SIG as well.
>
> The traffic on a similarly niche group like import-sig is only
> intermittent, but it means that by the time we bring suggestions to
> python-ideas or python-dev, we've already thrashed out the low level
> arcana and know that whatever we're proposing *can* be made to work,
> leaving the core lists to focus on the question of whether or not the
> change *should* be made.
>
> Whether or not to do that would be up to the folks with a specific
> interest in working with dates and times, though.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>

Would it be worth doing a straw poll to gauge how many people really 
need this, from my perspective anyway, level of complexity?  I've used 
datetimes a lot, but I don't even need naive timezones, completely dumb 
suits me.

Alternatively just go ahead, knowing that if the proposal isn't accepted 
into the stdlib it can at least go on pypi.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence