On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:37:14 -0700, James Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 22 Jun, 23:49, Roger Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> My rule of thumb in situations like this is "When in doubt store it as >> text". The one format I am pretty sure we will still be able to deal >> with in 2039. > >Interesting. I hadn't thought about using text. It would add to the >storage a bit as each record is otherwise quite short. But this sounds >like a good option and may help - at least while debugging - to see >the raw date and time as digits. I will consider using this, perhaps >as yyyymmddhhmmssttt. You might prefer to use one of the ISO 8601 formats: yyyymmddThhmmssttt or yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.ttt http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html rossum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
