[Zope3-dev] Dates and times

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:01:12 -0500


[Steve Alexander]
> My date says this:
> 
> [steve@localhost]$ date -d '2000-01-31 + 1 month'
> Thu Mar  2 00:00:00 UTC 2000
> 
> I don't think it is very helpful to add precedented precision to a datetime.
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I've never heard of this.  What is it?

> Manipulations of dates should return dates or date intervals.

Agreed.

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