[DB-SIG] Date-time types

[Bill Tutt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	M.-A. Lemburg [SMTP:lemburg@uni-duesseldorf.de]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 11, 1997 9:08 AM
> To:	DB-SIG @ Python.org
> Subject:	Re: [DB-SIG] Date-time types
> 
> Thanks Fredrik. I'll use the Python way then. Those ISO summaries
> are interesting. Though I doubt any real user will ever want to
> write:
> 
> 	19930214T131030 for 1993-02-14 13:10:30 or 
> 	---14 for the 14. of the current month
> 
Actually, that's not true.. YYYY MM DD HH:MM:SS is a very important way of
outputting dates..
Whats so great about it is that it allows you to do a sort based on your
string date representation, instead
of parsing each date into its consituent parts and then doing your
comparison.

Bill Tutt
Not speaking for Micrsoft, etc...


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