Re: DateTime microseconds discussion

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Alice Wonder <alice@librelamp.com> wrote: > On 11/08/2016 04:16 AM, Arjen Schol wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> I think you make some bad assumptions here. The examples provided by >> Sjon are scripts submitted to 3v4l.org They may have bad assumptions, >> but are real life examples of DateTime usage. And they will break. >> > > They are already broken. That's the point. > > Rarely will the current breakage trigger but it will trigger. > > Personally I prefer it when bad code obviously triggers, it can be very > difficult (read expensive) to track bugs in code that only rarely and > randomly trigger. I have discussed this with Joe, and we are OK with the warning BC break; everything else is not considered a BC break. We should definitely document some best practices around relative dates, e.g. using midnight, or explicitly setting the time. Thanks, - Davey