[ Lennart Regebro wrote:] > On 11/22/05, Jürgen Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> do we REALLY need dates <1900 / >2036 ? > > Yes. > >> using unix timestamps for >> storage and as the base for all conversions would make things a lot >> easier! > > datetimes are picklable, so if you are going to change how they are > stored (which may not be a good idea for backwards compatible > reasons), you should use that.
i'll surely change the storage format, when rewriting it! storing year, month, day, hour, minute, second, a unix timestamp and tzinfo is plain odd! so using a datetime instance for storage indeed seems the most obvious thing if we need dates <1900 / >2036. regards, juergen herrmann _______________________________________________________________________ >> 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 )
