[Fwd: [Zope3-dev] Date/Time requirements]

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:50:53 +0000


Don't tell just me, tell the list!

I think Steve has an important point on precision here, which he made on IRC,
but which I forgot...

please capture :-)

cheers,

Chris

Steve Alexander wrote:
> 
> Chris Withers wrote:
> >
> > Please (beg) can we have a seperate Date and a seperate Time object. I don't
> > care if the implementations are the same underneath (I don't see why they would
> > be, but anyway...).
> >
> > My reasoning? Well, name me situations where you want to deal with Date and Time
> > in a single attribute, other than a Timestamp, which is a fairly unique usecase
> > easily solves with a TimeStamp type...
> 
> A date type is just a special case of representing the precision of one
> day in a datetime type ;-)
> 
> --
> Steve