Hello Juan well, the idea behind me was to do something that anybody can use actually.....if I crack the DateTime module for a quick and dirty, then nobody will benefit from it, and I will have to take care of it in future releases. I was however thinking on two possible solutions: - creating a DateTime class preserving the actual interface while wrapping around mxDateTime.... - pathing the actual one. I will study mxDateTime and think about it. Somebody would like to help me, by the way? Regards Stefano

Message: 15 Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Playing with DateTime To: zope-dev@zope.org Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:43:57 +0100 (MET) From: palomar@sg.uji.es (Juan David Ibáñez Palomar)

Hello Stefano,

I used mxDateTime about two years ago, when I worked with Bobo, the move to Zope brought lots of advantages, the only thing I missed was mxDateTime.

The discussion about DateTime comes to the mailing lists between time to time, you can look what has already been said about it in the archives, for example:

http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-May/108798.html http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2000-September/118269.html

Yes, switching to mxDateTime would require a lot of work in Zope and also would break lots of products and web sites, while patching DateTime is a more quick(&dirty) solution.

IMHO there're no good arguments against reusing a so good piece of code, in the long term at least; mxDateTime is the standard in the python community, only zopers use something else; and it's free software: if the original developer does not support it anymore others can do it.

But I understant that if you only want to fix something it's more quick to patch DateTime.

best regards, jdavid

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