On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Bikeshed: Would arithmetic be based on UTC time or Unix time? It'd be >> more logical to describe it as "adding six hours means adding six >> hours to the UTC time", but it'd look extremely odd when there's a >> leap second. > > It would ignore leap seconds. If you want to call that unix time or > not is a matter of opinion. Hm. I guess the internal representation > *could* be EPOCH + offset, and local times could be calculated > properties, which could be cached (or possibly calculated at > creation).
In any case there wold probably need to be a PEP on that, and that means PEP 431 wouldn't make it into 3.5, unless somebody smarter than me want to take a shot at it. //Lennart _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
