[Python-ideas] Date/time literals

[Marcos Bonci]

> It's very nice of you to attribute such a great post to me, but
> I just linked to it. I'm not the author of any of the resources
> I linked to.
>

Oops, lack-of-sleep in action!.. Being myself an example of the
inattentive guy I was talking about, I guess...


> One of the issues from what I understand is that you pretty much need
> to be a specialist in the time/date domain (or have one available at
> all times) to get this stuff right. I'm guessing the Python community
> doesn't have any involved/available, least of which at the core level.
>
> Furthermore if you want to see what's usually considered a
> best-of-breed in the java world, look not at the standard library but
> at joda time [1]. In fact, with Java 7 the current Date/Calendar API
> should be replaced by one strongly inspired by Joda (and created by
> its author) and influenced by a few other APIs of the Java world. See
> JSR 310 for details [2], though note that the inclusion in Java 7
> apparently isn't certain yet due to delays in the JSR 310 process [3].
>
> For a (probably long outdated) overview of what JSR 310 would provide,
> see [4]
>
> [1] http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=310
> [3] http://tech.puredanger.com/java7
> [4]
> http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/09/18/jsr-310-new-java-date-time-api.html


Since it's all open source stuff, shouldn't it be possible to just
"clone" most of it?
Or is there some Java-specific thing that makes it hard to translate?

-- Marcos --
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