On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If you want that, use tics or numpy.datetime64.
>>
>
> Chris, please stop promoting numpy.datetime64 here.  It is definitely not
> a positive example of how a date/time manipulation library should be
> designed.
>

Sorry -- didn't mean to promote -- and yes, it's actually really horrible,
particularly for anything to do with time zones. The point was that there
are other ways to get performance for datetime arithmetic if that's what
you need. That's all.

-Chris



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