[Python-ideas] Reduce platform dependence of date and time related functions

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> As you pointed out, getting the locale details is essentially not possible
> in a cross-platform way unless you use strptime or strftime, so you have to
> choose which is implemented in Python and relies on the other.


What we can do is to implement "C" locale behavior.  In fact, in many uses
of strftime() its locale-dependence is a problem.  I would much rather have
strftime_l()-like function and "C" locale implemented in stdlib.  This is
somewhat similar to the situation we have with timezone support: include
utc timezone and leave it to third parties to supply interfaces to platform
tz databases.
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