[Dev] Date / Time types

[Nicholas Bastin]

On Nov 8, 2004, at 4:30 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

>>> I'd like to try to gather some information prior to having a 
>>> meeting, so replies to this message, Journal Notes wiki pages, etc, 
>>> would be welcome.
>>
>> A related issue (date/time formatting) came up briefly during a 
>> meeting I had with John, Katie and Chao.
>>
>> I suggested using ICU for cross-platform I18N support, though there 
>> currently isn't a Python extension module for it (though Nick Bastin 
>> is working on implementing wrappers for the Locale class).
>
> I know that Nick is working on wrappers, but haven't been in touch 
> with him in some time...

Ok, so I'll read my OSAF mail again.. ;-)

I am working on a full set of wrappers, but will hopefully have Locale, 
Calendar, TimeZone, and Date/Time Services wrapped by the time my 
thanksgiving vacation is over.. :-)  Those 4 should allow you full 
localized support of dates and times.  I hope to have number formatting 
done as well, but I'm not promising.  Things like Bidi and Collation 
are hard, and they won't be done by then, so you can count that stuff 
out for an early-december release.

--
Nick