[Numpy-discussion] Make all comparisons with NaT false?

[Chris Barker]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently, NaT (not a time) does not have any special treatment when used
> in comparison with datetime64/timedelta64 objects.
>
> To me, this seems a little crazy for a value meant to denote a
> missing/invalid time -- NaT should really have the same comparison behavior
> as NaN.
>

Yes, indeed.


> Whether you call this an API change or a bug fix is somewhat of a judgment
> call, but I believe this change is certainly consistent with the goals of
> datetime64. It's also consistent with how NaT is used in pandas, which uses
> its own wrappers around datetime64 precisely to fix these sorts of issues.
>

Getting closer to Pandas is a Good Thing too...


> So I'm raising this here to get some opinions on the right path forward:
> 1. Is this a bug fix that we can backport to 1.10.x?
> 2. Is this an API change that should wait until 1.11?
> 3. Is this something where we need to start issuing warnings and deprecate
> the existing behavior?
>
> My vote would be for option 2.
>

I agree.

-CHB

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