[Zope] DateTime mess

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Mon Nov 28 05:30:07 EST 2005


Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> I agree that is should be replaced but I also mentioned that we tried to 
> achieve that already some years ago and we gave up....so talking about 
> deprecation really makes sense when someone puts a replacement module on 
> the table. I know that the DateTime module is a piece of crap but crap 
> you can live mostly with (as long as you don't need timezones :-)).

Okay, well, I'd advocate replacement with a zope.datetime that 
subclasses python's datetime, mixes in persistence and provides some of 
the extra helper methods.

What do people think?

cheers,

Chris

(CC'ing Phillip 'cos I saw him doing some Zope 3'ish DateTime stuff...)
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