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

[Guido van Rossum]

> I still think that at least the _concept_ of precision should be built in
> from the start.

Hm, I think it complicates matters enough to relegate it to a
subclass.  But it could be a standard subclass.

> It could be always 0.001 ms by default, even if date is input as
> "19th century", but I think it is important that it is there, so
> people need not come up with their own way of doing it every time.
> 
> As an acceptable simplification I would exclude overlapping
> precisions (so week and night are out)
> 
> On TZ and DST I think that the actual value is what is important, not name.
> 
> I'll try to post this on the wiki sometime today too.

Please do -- I don't archive zope3-dev traffic.

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