[ Lennart Regebro wrote:] > On 11/21/05, Jürgen Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> recently i came up here with the intention to fix DateTime#strftime(). >> while trying this, i had to dig deeper and deeper into the >> implementation >> of DateTime and especially the timezone and daylight saving stuff. >> to be honest, it's completely hacked together :( > > Yup. > >> sorry guys, i won't be able to completely fix this for now. i found >> a way to monkey patch zope to make it work for my case (2 timezones >> only). my plan is to completely reimplement DateTime, based on >> python's datetime in my own freetime (maybe around xmas this year) >> and give it back to the community. > > Well, that would be cool. Just a question: How do you plan to keep and > verify backwards compatibility? Any database, with any type of > DateTime object, must work transparently.
100% compatibility isn't desireable, because its broken atm ;P _______________________________________________________________________ >> XLhost.de - eXperts in Linux hosting << Jürgen Herrmann Bruderwöhrdstraße 15b, DE-93051 Regensburg Fon: +49 (0)700 XLHOSTDE [0700 95467833] Fax: +49 (0)721 151 463027 WEB: http://www.XLhost.de _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [email protected] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )
