[Zope] DateTime mess

[Dennis Allison]

If I have a vote, +1 on deprecation and replacement with something less
buggy.  We have spent enormous amounts of time trying to sort out and then
work around DateTime problems.  On the other hand, we have a substantial
amount of code that uses DateTime and finally, mostlyt works.  We'd be
unhappy if we had to rewrite everything--so a long deprecation period
makes sense.

Timezones, BTW are just the tip of the iceberg.  Datetime tries to be
a "it just works" solution to an inherently ambiguous problem and 
incorporates many surprises.




On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Chris Withers wrote:

> Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> > -1 on making DateTime deprecated. I'm sure thousands of zope people
> > use DateTime in thousands of places. Technically it might be correct
> > deprecate it but politically it's just going to put people off from
> > upgrading.
> 
> I'm sure it would be fairly trivial to write an unpgrader, but really, 
> deprecating it, even if the deprecation period is fairly long, is the 
> only sane way to tackle this...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 

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