[Python-Dev] proposal: add basic time type to the standard library

[Guido van Rossum]

> > What does a database app with the resulting tuple?
> 
> It puts the values into struct fields for year, month, day, etc.
> (Databases usually avoid using Unix ticks since these cause
> the known problems with dates prior to 1970)

Hm, I thought that databases have their own date/time types?  Aren't
these used?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)