[Python-Dev] Status on PEP-431 Timezones

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Jul 28 06:15:45 CEST 2015


Paul Moore writes:

 > On 27 July 2015 at 15:57, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
 > > IMHO “+ 1 days” and “+ 24 hours” are two different things.  Date
 > > arithmetic is full of messy things like that.  “+ 1 month” is another
 > > example of that (which the datetime module punts completely
 > > and can be a source of endless bikeshidding).
 > 
 > Precisely.

Er, to be exact, it's an accurate statement of imprecision (although
when talking about time and computation, both "accuracy" and
"precision" are ambiguous).  Fortunately, there's a "tim" in "time"!




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