[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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