On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >I think improving datetime needs to go in two directions: >a) arbitrary-precision second fractions. My motivation for > proposing/supporting Decimal was that it can support arbitrary > precision, unlike any of the alternatives (except for using > numerator/denominator pairs). So just adding nanosecond resolution > to datetime is not enough: it needs to support arbitrary decimal > fractions (it doesn't need to support non-decimal fractions, IMO). >b) distinction between universal time and local time. This distinction > is currently blurred; there should be prominent API to determine > whether a point-in-time is meant as universal time or local time. > In terminology of the datetime documentation, there needs to be > builtin support for "aware" (rather than "naive") UTC time, even > if that's the only timezone that comes with Python.
+1 -Barry
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