I was going through the release notes of the new Python 3.12 version the other day, and one item caught my attention in the deprecations section:datetime.datetime’s utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp()…
@Sigmatics Habits can be unlearned over a few generations. Doesn’t mean in becomes practical all if a sudden. It’s just messy to say “I’ll do this tomorrow” when “tomorrow” might mean “before I go to bed”.
“See you Monday!”
“Eh, before or after sleep on Monday?”
It’s just not viable. It requires us to think differently about what a date is, returning the original issue: different people living at different dates.
Yeah that’s kind of what I meant. People like their days to start at the same time every day. We are creatures of habit.
@Sigmatics Habits can be unlearned over a few generations. Doesn’t mean in becomes practical all if a sudden. It’s just messy to say “I’ll do this tomorrow” when “tomorrow” might mean “before I go to bed”.
“See you Monday!”
“Eh, before or after sleep on Monday?”
It’s just not viable. It requires us to think differently about what a date is, returning the original issue: different people living at different dates.