[Zope] - Some DateTime behaviors I just don't understand

[skip@calendar.com (Skip Montanaro)]

    Jim> The problem is that DateTime wants to support offsets in seconds
    Jim> from the epoc *and* offsets in days from 1901-01-01.  This approach
    Jim> is flawed.  (It results from some interface baggage from some older
    Jim> date-time implementations of mine.)

    Jim> I'm inclined to change DateTime to only expect epoch offsets in
    Jim> seconds when a single numeric argument is given.  This will be
    Jim> changed in the next release.

Since time.time() returns a float and the number of days since 1901-01-01
would normally be considered an int, why not interpret single floating point
args as seconds since the Unix epoch and ints or longs as days since
1901-01-01?  This would be easily enough explained in the documentation and
would perhaps induce less breakage in existing applications that use
DateTime.

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