[Numpy-discussion] Making datetime64 timezone naive

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Marten van Kerkwijk <
m.h.vankerkwijk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe not directly relevant, but also very clearly why one should ideally
>> not use these a
>>
> all!
>>
> I wouldn't say not at all -- I'd say "not in some circumstances"

> Perhaps even less relevant, but if you do need absolute times (and thus
>> work with UTC or TAI or GPS), have a look at astropy's `Time` class. It
>> does use two doubles,
>>
> interesting -- I wonder why not two integers?

> but with that maintains "sub-nanosecond precision over times spanning the
>> age of the universe" [1].
>>
> well, we do all need that!

Seriously, though -- if we are opening all this up, maybe it's worth
considering other options, rather than kludging datetime64 -- particularly
if there is something someone has already implemented and tested...

But for now, Stephan's patches to make datetime64 far more useful and easy
are very welcome!

-CHB

[1] http://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/time/index.html
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