[Python-Dev] RE: [Zope3-dev] Proposing to simplify datetime

[Tim]

A natural suggestion is to change the hierarchy to:

object timedelta tzinfo time date datetime

[Shane Hathaway]

I think the proposal is so good and well-reasoned that no one had anything to say. ;-) +1

I think your vote carries the motion, then, Shane! Thank you. I know Guido is in favor of it (has been pushing for it, in fact), and that changing the Python implementation only took a few hours was a Good Sign. I've since played with the new implementation as a user, and found it more pleasant to use (e.g., fewer pointless choices to make, and "promoting" what was a datetime to what was a datetimetz has become trivial instead of an irritating puzzle).