[Zope3-dev] Date/Time requirements

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:29:15 -0500


> 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...

Please add this to the Wiki once more.  The datetime prototype already
has a 'date' baseclass.  Adding a 'time' class would be trivial
(because the semantics are so simple).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)