[Zope3-dev] Dates and times

[Chris Withers]

Jim Fulton wrote:
>  > Leave all zeroes for the year/month/day part
> 
>> (currently datetime doesn't allow this)? 
> 
> Wrong too.

Why? I knwo this has been a bugbear of many peiople with Zope 2's DateTime...

>  > Maybe the datetime module needs a 'time' class?
> 
> Maybe.

That could be cool :-)

>  > subtracting two times to get an interval
> 
>> (which perhaps should always be positive, i.e. some sort of modular
>> arithmetic (modulo 24 hours)), and adding an interval to a time (also
>> mod 24 hours). 
> 
> No. No. No. No math on times. :)

I see the smiley, not sure what it means. Maths on times is pretty essential 
IMHO. So, what did the smiley mean? :-)

cheers,

Chris