[Zope3-dev] datetimeutil.py for the rest of us

[Jim Fulton]

Any improvement to or replacement of this module is welcome. :)

It was ported from Zope 2 early on to get something else working.

Jim


Stuart Bishop wrote:
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> I've just been looking through datetimeutils.py - it seems
> to be propagating problems that persist to this day in Zope 2's
> DateTime module
> 
>     - It attempts to parse timezone abbreviations and match them to
>       timezones. Timezone abbreviations are not unique, and thus
>      it is only possible to guess. This is quite annoying to the
>       majority of Australians who live in the EST timezone all
>       year around (at UTC+10 or UTC+11 depending on if DST is in effect).
>      There are probably other locale that conflict (and if their aren't
>       today, there may be tomorrow since this sort of thing is
>       decided by politicians and not computer programmers).
>       I think this is the reason why standards like ISO 8601 and
>       W3C datetime only use offsets for non UTC.
> 
>     - If an ambiguous datetime format is parsed, it assumes US format.
>       I feel that this case should instead raise an exception.
>       If US programmers insist on being able to write broken code,
>       seperate US specific methods could be made available in
>       datetimeutils.py or a seperate US centric module.
>     
> 
> - --  Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
> http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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