[Issues] datetime vs. DateTime

[Ewout M. Helmich]

Hi Johannes,

This was changed about 2 1/2 months ago, in preparation for moving to 
Python 2.5. This change is necessary because the cx_Oracle code for 
Python 2.5 assumes Python datetimes are used. "DateTime" (mx.DateTime) 
required the installation of "mx" as a Python package, wheras "datetime" 
is native to Python.

Howto's etc. have been updated accordingly.

The Python datetime module does not have as much functionality as 
mx.DateTime, for example it is not aware of Julian dates, AbsDates, and 
it does not parse strings. To offer such functionalities (which we use 
in the code) a number of functions were added to astro/util/utilities.py.

Regards,
Ewout


Johannes Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Hi all, 
>
> I found the DATE_OBS value of my RawBiasFrames to be of some strange type:
>
> awe> rb = ( RawBiasFrame.instrument.name == 'WFI' )[0]
> awe> type( rb.DATE_OBS )
> <type 'datetime.datetime'>
>
>
> in the past it was of type 
>
> <type 'DateTime'>
>
> Has something changed or is there a problem with the database? 
> What is the difference between datetime.datetime and DateTime?
>
> Cheers,
> Johannes
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