Re: Multiple timezone support for datetime representation

2011-09-04 Thread Daniel Swarbrick
I'm wholeheartedly on +1 on this. @Anssi Kääriäinen, re your localtime meeting example: this type of scenario has been discussed on this list previously, and the generally acknowledged solution is to use separate date and time fields, neither of which (on their own) have a concept of timezone. @A

Re: class based views: object instead of dictionary as context?

2011-09-04 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 03-09-11 16:05, Luke Plant wrote: The history of CBVs in Django is that they are simply a way of using OOP and inheritance to reduce duplication between view functions and allow better re-use. They are supposed to be drop in replacements for function based views in terms of the end result, rat

Re: class based views: object instead of dictionary as context?

2011-09-04 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 04-09-11 21:28, Reinout van Rees wrote: On the other hand, from an object oriented viewpoint, the class based views seem to be pretty powerless and non-object-oriented. To me, it almost seems like they're artificially "castrated" to make function views look good :-) That's probably not the int