Dates & Time: pain points, useful libraries, and testing considerations

by rsyring
Level: Beginner
Oct 04, 2014 at 9:30 a.m.

Date & Time handling in Python has it's ups & downs. In this talk, we will cover:

  • some of the pain points and weaknesses in the Python standard library
  • two libraries I have found helpful: dateutils and arrow
  • best practices for working with timezones
  • best practices for testing code that deals with dates and time

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