[DB-SIG] ANN: DateTime type, version 0.1

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Now that we have decided on the need for a basic date/time
type and more or less settled on what it should be able to do
and what not, here it is:

    http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxDateTime.html 

You'll find all information regarding the type, how to download
and install it on that page. Future releases will also use
that URL.

I plan to upload the archive to www.python.org and - if you
all agree - update the DB API Spec. 1.1 to make it the
standard for date/time value passing in and out of databases.

While I am going to support this module, I am counting on
you out there to provide classes on top of this
type to do all the nifty stuff we've been talking about
here lately. Christian Egli's classes should can use the type
directly since it uses the same absolute date numbering.

Note: the mx-prefix is just for packaging, the module
itself is named 'DateTime', just like the data type it
provides.

If you don't have a strptime() function in your C lib,
then you should undefine this (HAVE_STRPTIME in the C file).
Guido will include a patch for the configure script in the
final that does this check for you.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg


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