In parameters.py we define a GeneralizedTime object to be used as an
XMLRPC parameter. Why?
* XMLRPC defines the dateTime.iso8601 parameter value type for passing
date/time information
* Python has good support for date/time processing in it's datetime module
* Python's xmlrpclib supports both xmlrpclib.DateTime and
datetime.datetime objects.
* Python's xmlrpclib can be configured to use datetime.datetime objects
intead of xmlrpclib.DateTime objects if you pass use_datetime=True when
invoking xmlrpclib.loads(), however we don't do that. Why?
* ISO 8601 is an internet standard for passing date time information
between cooperating network entities. However GeneralizedTime is only
valid in a subset of binary protocols (primarily LDAP and PKI)
Given that ISO 8601 is the preferred standard, that's it is directly
supported by XMLRPC, is compatible with datetime.datetime and the fact
datetime.datetime has excellent support in Python shouldn't we be using
datetime.datetime for all our date/time information and only convert to
and from GeneralizedTime for the subset of interfaces which require
GeneralizedTime?
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