[Zope3-dev] Dates and times

[Jim Fulton]

Steve Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, misread. The bugbear is that there's no way to have a 'NULL' 
>> time with Zope 2's DateTime.
> 
> 
> That's not a flaw in DateTime. That's a flaw in properties handling in 
> Zope 2.
> 
> In Zope 3, you can define a Schema that says "this attribute is a 
> DateTime, but you can use None here as well to represent 'NULL'".
> 
> Similarly, you can't have None as an int property in Zope 2. It would be 
> silly to have a special int 'NULL' value. The problem is best addressed 
> at the level of Schemas.

And schemas do handle this. Whew. :)

Jim


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