On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal < chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> > Personally, I never need finer resolution than seconds, nor more than > a century, so it's no big deal to me, but just wondering.... > > A use case for finer resolution than seconds (in our field, no less!) is lightning data. At the last SciPy conference, a fellow meteorologist mentioned how difficult it was to plot out lightning data at resolutions finer than microseconds (which is the resolution of the python datetime objects). Matplotlib has not supported the datetime64 object yet (John passed before he could write up that patch). Cheers! Ben By the way, my 12th Rule of Programming is "Never roll your own datetime"
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