[Numpy-discussion] Time Zones and datetime64

[Chris Barker - NOAA Federal]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Riccardo De Maria
<riccardodemaria at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not related to leap seconds and physically accurate time deltas, I have just
> noticed that SQLite has a nice API:
>
> http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html
>
> that one can be inspired from. The source contains a date.c which looks
> reasonably clear.

well, I don't see any timezone support in there at all. It appears the
use UTC, though I"m not entierly sure from the docs what now() would
return.

So I think it's pretty much like my "use UTC" proposal.


-Chris




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