On 27 Aug 2007, at 22:25 , Dieter Maurer wrote:
Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-8-27 22:11 +0200:
... In my personal opinion, we should
* use datetime for all the new stuff that we write,
* provide a convenient way to convert DateTime objects into datetime,
* create alternate APIs for all the APIs that work with DateTime objects (e.g. create a version of bobobase_modification_time that returns a datetime, same with the CMF DublinCore interface, etc.)
* let DateTime rot forever
+1.
And, the new version of "bobobase_modification_time" should have a more senseful name.
Absolutely.
... A 'cleaner', much better working version (datetime) and time zone support (pytz) have been around for ever since Python 2.3 was released and supported by Zope 2 several years (!) ago. It was everybody's choice NOT to use it so far.
Not sure whether "everybody's choice" is correct.
I believe that "datetime" is not even importable in TTW code and "datetime" objects not accessible in TTW code -- at least, they have not been until recently...
allow_module('datetime') is all you had to do. Ok, admittedly, pure- TTW developers who can't or won't touch filesystem code were out of luck, but everybody who *knew* about datetime and wanted to use it could have done so.