[Python-Dev] Issue 2736: datetimes and Unix timestamps

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> Can you define "relative time" here? The term makes me think of things
> like timedelta.

Timeouts, performance measurement, that kind of thing. Mostly
timescales of less than an hour, and usually less than a minute.

> Personally, I would really like not having to think about the time
> module at all, except if I wanted to go low-level (e.g. get a Unix
> timestamp from scratch).

Yup, that's what I meant, too.

Cheers,
Nick.

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