> On Mar 4, 2005, at 11:16 PM, Michael Watkins wrote: >> I'd like to lobby (again) for use of basic timezone aware datetime >> in Dulcinea across the board, even if all they do is set time and > David replied: > 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. Just thought I'd add to last week's discussion: After knocking my head against the wall today trying to locate an unpickling-related tzinfo-centric bug, I'm (+1 * 10) on sticking with utcnow() tzinfo unaware datetime objects. Thanks for the local.format_date_time hook, and all the other goodies in the latest Dulcinea.