[Zope3-dev] Dates and times

[Guido van Rossum]

> > No. No. No. No math on times. :)
> 
> I see the smiley, not sure what it means. Maths on times is pretty
> essential IMHO. So, what did the smiley mean? :-)

I was there when Jim typed that.  He was totally serious.

How would you define arithmetic on times?  Can you provide some
examples of what it should do IYO and why?

(Remember that you *can* do arithmetic on datetime.  We're talking
here about time only, i.e. you have a range of 24 hours only.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)