On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Darren Duncan wrote:
conceptual and a usability and a math point of view. If users only want the integer value, then they can just store the second as an integer in the first place. As for the name, well "whole_second" can be made shorter, or its
Users will not always control how the DateTime object is constructed. Nonetheless, when they want to know "what is the value for seconds", I think _most_ users will want an integer, not a floating point number.
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