Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-09 Thread Paul Ganssle
] *Sent:* Thursday, January 08, 2015 11:14 AM *To:* Drain, Theodore R (392P); matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul? I was hoping for something a bit more extensive of the intenals. I have tried to understand the units code a couple of times now

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-09 Thread Eric Firing
On 2015/01/09 9:54 AM, Paul Ganssle wrote: Thanks for the responses. If no one minds, I'm take a look at how to best implement datetime64 this weekend and the degree to which it might be useful, then maybe I can start an MEP for it. Paul, I think everyone will be delighted to have you do

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-08 Thread Drain, Theodore R (392P)
From: Chris Barker [chris.bar...@noaa.gov] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 9:00 AM To: matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul? On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.commailto:s...@pobox.com wrote: I'm real naive about

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-08 Thread Skip Montanaro
I'm real naive about this stuff, but I have always wondered why matplotlib didn't just use datetime objects, or at least use timezone-aware datetime objects as an interchange format to get the timezone stuff right. Skip

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-08 Thread Chris Barker
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: I'm real naive about this stuff, but I have always wondered why matplotlib didn't just use datetime objects, or at least use timezone-aware datetime objects as an interchange format to get the timezone stuff right. Time

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-08 Thread Thomas Caswell
:* Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul? On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com wrote: I'm real naive about this stuff, but I have always wondered why matplotlib didn't just use datetime objects, or at least use timezone-aware datetime objects as an interchange format

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-08 Thread Drain, Theodore R (392P)
AM To: Drain, Theodore R (392P); matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul? One of the other driving factors to over-haul the default date handling is that floats do not have enough precision to deal with nano-second resolution data (which is what I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-08 Thread Thomas Caswell
); matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul? One of the other driving factors to over-haul the default date handling is that floats do not have enough precision to deal with nano-second resolution data (which is what I think drove pandas to use

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-08 Thread Drain, Theodore R (392P)
feel free to send them to me. Ted From: Thomas Caswell [tcasw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 11:14 AM To: Drain, Theodore R (392P); matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul? I was hoping for something

[matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-07 Thread Paul Ganssle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Recently I took a crack at fixing some of the bugs in dates.py, and it seems like there's been some talk of overhauling how dates are handled. I don't see an MEP for that, so I'm wondering if anyone can give me some more details about what the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Date overhaul?

2015-01-07 Thread Eric Firing
On 2015/01/07 11:48 AM, Paul Ganssle wrote: Recently I took a crack at fixing some of the bugs in dates.py, and it seems like there's been some talk of overhauling how dates are handled. I don't see an MEP for that, so I'm wondering if anyone can give me some more details about what the