[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Greg Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> There's also the argument from consistency: midnight is the zero point 
> of the day, and zero is falsey.

Regarding midnight as a "zero point" is an arbitrary
convention.

The integer zero is not arbitrary, because it's the
additive identity. There is no corresponding additive
identity for times, because you can't add two times.

-- 
Greg