[Zope-dev] Re: Options replacing DateTime with datetime!?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

On 27 Aug 2007, at 22:25 , Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-8-27 22:11 +0200:
>> ...
>> In my personal opinion, we should
>>
>> * use datetime for all the new stuff that we write,
>>
>> * provide a convenient way to convert DateTime objects into datetime,
>>
>> * create alternate APIs for all the APIs that work with DateTime  
>> objects
>> (e.g. create a version of bobobase_modification_time that returns a
>> datetime, same with the CMF DublinCore interface, etc.)
>>
>> * let DateTime rot forever
>
> +1.
>
> And, the new version of "bobobase_modification_time" should have
> a more senseful name.

Absolutely.

>> ...
>> A 'cleaner', much better working version (datetime) and time zone
>> support (pytz) have been around for ever since Python 2.3 was  
>> released
>> and supported by Zope 2 several years (!) ago. It was everybody's  
>> choice
>> NOT to use it so far.
>
> Not sure whether "everybody's choice" is correct.
>
> I believe that "datetime" is not even importable in TTW code
> and "datetime" objects not accessible in TTW code -- at least,
> they have not been until recently...

allow_module('datetime') is all you had to do. Ok, admittedly, pure- 
TTW developers who can't or won't touch filesystem code were out of  
luck, but everybody who *knew* about datetime and wanted to use it  
could have done so.