> Guido> Proposal for internal representation (also the basis for an > Guido> efficient pickle format): > > Guido> year 2 bytes, big-endian, unsigned (0 .. 65535) > ... > Guido> - Why is the year unsigned? So memcmp() will do the right thing > Guido> for comparing dates (in the same timezone). > > So the earliest year it can represent is 1BC (or does year == 0 represent > some other base year)? Correct. > One of MAL's desires were that he could use the abstract interface /F > defined and remain binary compatible with the current mxDateTime layout. > Will your layout work for him? My layout is incompatible with that of mxDateTime, but this is not supposed to be /F's abstract interface -- this is supposed to be one implementation of it, mxDateTime can be another. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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