[Zope3-dev] The Date Time and TimeZone question

Frank Tegtmeyer fte@lightwerk.com
18 Mar 2002 16:24:58 +0100


Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> I have no desire to couple Python's standard datetime implementation
> to a 3rd party library.  Nor does Zope, I'm sure.

Why not? There is an excellent one at http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html.
It's public domain, implements TAI (not UTC) and is very
fast. Additionally the value space covers the lifetime of the
universe and fractional seconds up to attoseconds are supported.

Regards, Frank