[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Rob Cliffe]

On 06/03/2014 10:57, Paul Moore wrote:
>
> I had promised to stay out of this discussion as I no longer thing it
> adds much value (note that the bug has been reopened long since) and I
> was getting tired of having people decide that I'd said something I
> didn't mean.
>
> But just to add a perspective from someone who *doesn't* develop a
> datetime module, I encounter "special" midnight values very often.
> Databases (at least Oracle, and I believe others) typically store date
> values ("Thursday 6th March 2014") as a timestamp value with midnight
> as a time part. So checking the time part of a datetime value for
> midnight as a "special, means omitted" value is not uncommon in that
> domain.
>
> Paul
You're joking, right?
How do you distinguish "omitted" from "provided, equals midnight" ?
Rob Cliffe
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