On 2022-04-19, Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > If I am merely trying to represent part a very large number of seconds > as a number of years, 365 days per year does not seem that controversial > to me. Obviously there are issues if you expect all periods of an > integer number of years which start on a given date to all end on the > same date. > > In my little niche, I just need a very simple period and am anyway not > bothered about years, since in my case the number of days is usually > capped at 14 and only in extremely exceptional circumstances could it > get up to anywhere near 100. > > However, surely there are plenty of people measuring durations of a few > hours or less who don't want to have to deal with seconds all the time > (I am in fact also in this other group when I record my working hours).
Well, that's my point. Everyone's all in their own slightly-different little niches. There isn't one straightforward standard that makes all or even most of them happy. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list