Message 138984 - Python tracker

Message138984

Author	loewis
Recipients	Arfrever, belopolsky, jcea, khenriksson, lars.gustaebel, loewis, mark.dickinson, nadeem.vawda, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, vstinner
Date	2011-06-24.20:58:32
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In-reply-to	<1308948322.11.0.658062605041.issue11457@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> I didn't know that datetime is "extremely bad at representing time > stamps", could you explain please? - there is no easy way to convert it into "seconds since the epoch" - any broken-down time has issues of time stamp ordering in the duplicate hour of switching from DST to normal time - time zone support is flaky-to-nonexistent in the datetime module

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> I didn't know that datetime is "extremely bad at representing time
> stamps", could you explain please?

- there is no easy way to convert it into "seconds since the epoch"
- any broken-down time has issues of time stamp ordering in the
  duplicate hour of switching from DST to normal time
- time zone support is flaky-to-nonexistent in the datetime module

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-06-24 20:58:33	loewis	set	recipients: + loewis, jcea, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, lars.gustaebel, vstinner, nadeem.vawda, Arfrever, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, khenriksson
2011-06-24 20:58:32	loewis	link	issue11457 messages
2011-06-24 20:58:32	loewis	create