Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

PEP 684: "A Per-Interpreter GIL" has been accepted for Python 3.12!

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-684-a-per-interpreter-gil/19583/42?u=hugovk

https://peps.python.org/pep-0684/

#PEP684 #python #python312 #GIL

@pganssle @jerub How about EDTF (level 0) by the Library of Congress? https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/

@jerub Which I find mildly annoying, since the discussion always goes, "We should document that we accept ISO8601!"

"Ok, but that's a ton of work because of XYZ, and includes formats that, if you encounter them, are more likely to be typos than deliberate choices."

"Err, ok, let's do RFC3339."

"Ok, so datetime only and time zone is required, as is the T separator."

"Well no that's too strict, I guess we should just accept some ad hoc defined formats that are ISO8601-like."

@jerub RFC 3339 is stricter than the subset of ISO 8601 that most people talk about, because it is only a datetime format and *requires* a time zone.

As far as I can tell there is no standard that describes the subset of ISO8601 that people actually care about.

Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?

It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.

It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.

Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.

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https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/123538

@pganssle Two Lebanese television channels and an airline are sticking with the old rules...
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/25/middleeast/lebanon-daylight-savings-intl/index.html

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