[Python-ideas] High Precision datetime

[Wes Turner]

>From "[Python-Dev] PEP 564: Add new time functions with nanosecond
resolution" (2017-10-16 hh:mm ss[...] -Z)
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/dev-python/lLJuW_asYa0 :

> Maybe that's why we haven't found any CTCs (closed timelike curves) yet.
>
> Aligning simulation data in context to other events may be enlightening:
is there a good library for handing high precision time units in Python
(and/or CFFI)?

There's not yet an ISO8601-like standard for this level of time/date
precision.

Correlating particle events between experiments does require date+time.

On Monday, May 14, 2018, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:

> Chris is certainly right. A program that deals with femtosecond intervals
> should almost surely start by defining a "start of experiment" epoch where
> microseconds are fine. Then within that epoch, events should be monotonic
> integers for when measured or calculated times are marked.
>
> I can easily see reasons why a specialized wrapped int for
> FemtosecondsFromStart could be useful. But that's still a specialized need
> for a third party library. One possible use of this class might be to
> interoperate with datetimes or timedeltas. Conceivably sick
> interoperability could be dealing with leap seconds when needed. But
> "experiment time" should be a simple monotonic and uniform counter.
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2018, 6:35 PM Chris Barker - NOAA Federal via Python-ideas
> <python-ideas at python.org> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > UTC and leap seconds aren't a problem.
>>
>> Of course they are a problem— why else would they not be implemented
>> in datetime?
>>
>> But my point if that given datetimestamp or calculation could be off
>> by a second or so depending on whether and how leap seconds are
>> implemented.
>>
>> It just doesn’t seem like a good idea to be handling months and
>> femptoseconds with the same “encoding”
>>
>> -CHB
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