Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: > We're still just papering-over the basic problem: the entire > time/calendar system use by "western civilization" is a mess. I don't > know a lot about other systems in use, but from what I have seen they > were all pretty much just as bad. We should fix the basic problem > first, then I bet the Python library problems will sort themselves out > pretty easily.
I see from my calendar that 1 April is still several days away. So I wonder how serious you are: we should forestall dealing with the reality of calendars, until the world fixes our difficulties for us? > Of course to simplify matters, we're going to have to stop worrying so > much about seasons and whether it's light or dark outside... Not too serious, I suppose. So what *do* you recommend we do? It's easy to point at the real world and say it's messy and distasteful to deal with, but that's a big part of the job we take on as programmers. -- \ “… Nature … is seen to do all things Herself and through | `\ herself of own accord, rid of all gods.” —Titus Lucretius | _o__) Carus, c. 40 BCE | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
