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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Martijn van Beers wrote: > > But nothing fancy, just a few formats should be supported in the > > base class, including epoch time, ICal, and maybe ISO 8601. > > I wouldn't call epoch arguments parsing, but I would really like it if > this wasn't in the base class. Making people go through extra steps to > use epoch is a good thing, which will hopefully make them think about > using it a bit more. I agree that epoch is bad, because it's so limited, but it's a "standard" that a lot of people are familiar with, so it needs to be supported in the core object. I have no objection to putting appropriate "epochs are limited!" warnings in the docs. -dave /*======================= House Absolute Consulting www.houseabsolute.com =======================*/Thread Previous | Thread Next