On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Pierre GM <[email protected]> wrote:
> <snip> > > > """ > > A representation is also supported such that the stored date-time > > integer can encode both the number of a particular unit as well as a > > number of sequential events tracked for each unit. > > """ > > > > I'm not sure I understand what this really means, but I _think_ I agree > > with Pierre that this is unnecessary complication - couldn't it be > > handled by multiple arrays, or maybe a structured dtype? > > My point. Mark W., perhaps you should ask the folks at Enthought (Travis O. > in particular) what they had in mind ? Whether the original interest is > still there. If it is, I wonder we can't find some workaround that would > drop support for that. I'll ask, for sure. > > If we're > > going to allow different units, we might as well have different > "origins". > > +1 > > > > > I also don't think that units like "month", "year", "business day" > > should be allowed -- it just adds confusion. It's not a killer if they > > are defined in the spec: > > -1 > In scikits.timeseries, not only did we have years,months and business days, > but we also had weeks, that proved quite useful sometimes, and that were > discarded in the discussion of the new NEP a few years back. > There are weeks in the implementation. One of my points in the original email was whether to adjust week's epoch by a few days so they align with ISO8601 weeks, do you have an opinion about that? -Mark > Anyhow, years and months are simple enough. In case of ambiguities like > Mark's example, we can always raise an exception. ISO8601 seems quite OK. > Support for multiple time zones, daylight saving conventions, holidays and > so forth could be let to specific packages. > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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