On Mar 4, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Michael Watkins wrote:

> I'd like to lobby (again) for use of basic timezone aware datetime
> objects
> in Dulcinea across the board, even if all they do is set time and
> tzinfo
> to UTC.

There is an interesting thread related to this in the zodb3-dev list:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope3-dev/2005-February/013567.html
I think we should change Dulcinea to use utcnow everywhere instead
of now(), and just run all date formatting through a local.format_date
as you
suggest.


> Perhaps Dulcinea should allow a local.format_date function (if one
> exists)
> provide more advanced functionality?