On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Anthony Scopatz <scop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Option (2), what datetime does, is the wrong model. This is more > complicated in both the implementation and API, and leads to lots of broken > code, weird errors, and no clear right way of doing thing.
could you elaborate a bit more? I've never tried to use timezone support with datetime, so I have no idea what goes wrong -- but it looks reasonable to me. though it really punts on the hard stuff, so maybe no point. -Chris > Be Well > Anthony > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal > <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Riccardo De Maria >> <riccardodema...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Not related to leap seconds and physically accurate time deltas, I have >> > just >> > noticed that SQLite has a nice API: >> > >> > http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html >> > >> > that one can be inspired from. The source contains a date.c which looks >> > reasonably clear. >> >> well, I don't see any timezone support in there at all. It appears the >> use UTC, though I"m not entierly sure from the docs what now() would >> return. >> >> So I think it's pretty much like my "use UTC" proposal. >> >> >> -Chris >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Christopher Barker, Ph.D. >> Oceanographer >> >> Emergency Response Division >> NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice >> 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax >> Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception >> >> chris.bar...@noaa.gov >> _______________________________________________ >> NumPy-Discussion mailing list >> NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org >> http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion