On 4/3/13, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > 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"
A rule on par with "never get involved in a land war in Asia": both equally Fraught With Peril. :) Warren > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
