[Zope] DateTime mess

[Lennart Regebro]

On 11/21/05, Jürgen Herrmann <Juergen.Herrmann at xlhost.de> wrote:
> recently i came up here with the intention to fix DateTime#strftime().
> while trying this, i had to dig deeper and deeper into the implementation
> of DateTime and especially the timezone and daylight saving stuff.
> to be honest, it's completely hacked together :(

Yup.

> sorry guys, i won't be able to completely fix this for now. i found
> a way to monkey patch zope to make it work for my case (2 timezones
> only). my plan is to completely reimplement DateTime, based on
> python's datetime in my own freetime (maybe around xmas this year)
> and give it back to the community.

Well, that would be cool. Just a question: How do you plan to keep and
verify backwards compatibility? Any database, with any type of
DateTime object, must work transparently.

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