[Tutor] Date time

[Danny Yoo]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Sunil Tech <sunil.techspk at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> I want to know, what difference is in between *mxDateTime & datetime of
> python?*
> looking for your comments...
>


According to the mxDateTime web site, it provides a compatible interface to
the standard library's version.

    http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/


I'm trying to remember the history of things, but unfortunately my memory
can't be trusted.  But I believe mxDateTime was developed first, and
influenced the design of the standard library's version.


I'm trying to see if I can find supporting evidence for this guess... ok,
the one in the standard library came in July 2003, according to:


http://docs.python.org/release/2.3/whatsnew/node18.html#SECTION0001810000000000000000

We can do a few more searches to see that references to mxDateTime did
exist before then.

For example, here's a reference from back in April 1999:

    http://code.activestate.com/lists/python-list/208/


We can also see that the developer, M.-A. Lemburg,  worked to get things
compatible between the two implementations:

    https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/032100.html


So that should help explain why there are two libraries out there with the
same interface.
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