DateTime in Python standard distribution?

[Peter Maas]

I just browsed What's New in Python 2.3 and I wondered again why
there is no DateTime in Python standard distribution enabling
DateTime arithmetics. Yes, I know mx.DateTime but as a newbie you
have first to find it, then to download and install it. DateTime
arithmetics is so widely used (at least in office environments)
that I find its absence in the standard Python library strange.
I think it should even be a  builtin data type like complex. Is
there any reason why it's not included or has it just been
forgotten?

Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Peter Maas

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