[Python-Dev] Adding the 'path' module (was Re: Some RFE forreview)

[Guido van Rossum]

On 6/28/05, Anders J. Munch <ajm at flonidan.dk> wrote:

> Alas datetime objects do not unambiguously identify a point in time.
> datetime objects are not timestamps: They represent the related but
> different concept of _local time_, which can be good for presentation,
> but shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a persistent store.

You misunderstand the datetime module! You can have a datetime object
whose timezone is UTC; or you can have a convention in your API that
datetime objects without timezone represent UTC.

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