Ill go with Date, Time, DateTime, since DBAPI specifies all three....but
hack your own in the meantime.


limodou wrote:
> 2006/1/7, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> OK, most databases dont even store dates as a string value, instead
>> using
>> an internal object format that is translated by the DBAPI layer into
>> datetime objects.  the string date thing is a "feature" of SQLite.  So
>> for
>> SQLite, we just make a guess as to a decent date format.  If you are
>> storing dates in arbitrary character formats, I would recommend just
>> subclassing the sqlalchemy.databases.sqlite.SLDate object date type
>> yourself and modifying the guts to work with your specific
>> format....that
>> type can be used directly in table definitions.
>>
>> Im not sure yet if I want to get into that whole "theres three different
>> date objects, with/without date, with/without time" thing, on the Python
>> side...mostly because I am not sure if DBAPIs really deal with the
>> "date"
>> and "time" objects separately instead of just the "datetime"...but I
>> will
>> examine this further.  The type objects would then become types.Date,
>> types.Time, and types.DateTime.  The "caps" datetime types I think need
>> a
>> little work since some of them seem redundant...I just threw them in
>> there
>> to start with.
>>
>
> I think Date and DateTime may be hit the most cases. I also checked
> the SQLObject module, there are DateCol and DateTimeCol in it, and in
> Django, there are TimeField, DateField, and DateTimeField. But I think
> TimeField in django is in order to create web widget easily.
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