-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jürgen Herrmann wrote: > [ Florent Guillaume wrote:] > >> >>Jürgen Herrmann 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 :( >>>DateTimeZone.py has one BIG dictionary in it, not a single line of >>>comments. values of this dict are nested lists, among other hackish >>>things (list like usage of a string, with \000 as separator). >>>the methods that use this dict also have no comments/docstrings at all. >>>obviously the guy(s) that originally wrote this, is/are hiding (i know >>>why :) so, there's nobody to ask either... >>> >>>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. >>> >>>once again sry, if i raised expectations on the fix of strftime. >> >>Yes replacing DateTime is a laudable but difficult goal. >> >>One thing that could be done meanwhile is just refactor the unit test to >>be a base class that could then be used to test DateTime or to test >>another potential implementation. That would go a long way to help >>actually write a new implementation. >> >>Florent >> > > hi florent! > > actually that's the best thing to do! this way the implementer knows > what to do exactly :) > but be aware that some tests got modified to pass with current (broken) > behaviour! > > one more question (to the public!): > do we REALLY need dates <1900 / >2036 ? using unix timestamps for > storage and as the base for all conversions would make things a lot > easier!
Yes, we do need them. The Unix timestamp epoch starts at 1970, BTW. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 202-558-7113 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDgwz0+gerLs4ltQ4RAt95AJ9yGr7egzS6Fb6/Tlq3d196CccA1gCgkZeO Zs+XUWMJ9QhG8G4XRTOUF0k= =GaZ6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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 )
