Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Bug+Patch] Microseconds in DateTime
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Nicola Larosa wrote: OK, so nobody cares. Anyway, the BugCollector is down, what is a poor guy to do to get the fix in? Of course, if it is a very stupid thing to do, I would really like to know. :^) Well, I like the idea personally, but let me play devil's advocate here for a minute. Suppose there are platforms where those extra couple of digits are not valid. Suppose further that the common paradigm of using str(int(DateTime())) as a unique id is employed. Now suppose you move that code from a Unix platform to some platform that doesn't supply the extra digits. Suddenly your code that used to provide uniqueness down to a fairly tight hit interval is much more fragile. Is this a real concern? I don't really think so. But it's the only objection I can think of grin. --RDM ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Bug+Patch] Microseconds in DateTime
R. David Murray wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Nicola Larosa wrote: OK, so nobody cares. Anyway, the BugCollector is down, what is a poor guy to do to get the fix in? Of course, if it is a very stupid thing to do, I would really like to know. :^) Well, I like the idea personally, but let me play devil's advocate here for a minute. Suppose there are platforms where those extra couple of digits are not valid. Suppose further that the common paradigm of using str(int(DateTime())) as a unique id is employed. Now suppose you move that code from a Unix platform to some platform that doesn't supply the extra digits. Suddenly your code that used to provide uniqueness down to a fairly tight hit interval is much more fragile. Is this a real concern? I don't really think so. But it's the only objection I can think of grin. Well, I'm usually against cathering to the lowest common denominator, so I'll agree with you here that this is not a real concern :-) cheers, Leo ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
Re: [Zope-dev] Re: [Bug+Patch] Microseconds in DateTime
Nicola Larosa wrote: [Sent to main list, ignored. Retrying here...] OK, so nobody cares. Anyway, the BugCollector is down, what is a poor guy to do to get the fix in? Of course, if it is a very stupid thing to do, I would really like to know. :^) Just to voice an opinion, I like the patch and I think it should go in. Now what really matters is if someone with CVS commit powers agree with me :-) cheers, Leo ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
