Pendulum VS PyTime

Pendulum

• Creating Command-Line Tools in Python with argparse - Guide
  1 project | /r/learningpython | 9 Dec 2023

  I did the same with datetime and moved to using Pendulum.

• It's Time for a Change: Datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023

  Python could be better but really, does any language handle date and time types well? After 30+ years of this I mostly just use seconds since epoch everywhere like some sort of caveman banging rocks together. But at least it works clearly.

  Last I looked Pendulum was the best choice for a fancy but humane Python library for dates and times. Install size is over 4MB :-( https://pendulum.eustace.io/

• 🗓 date-operations: A package for common date operations [Package on PyPy]
  3 projects | /r/Python | 17 May 2023

  Good luck with your library, but for everyone else I’ll leave this here: https://pendulum.eustace.io/

• Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2023

  Pendulum is quite good[0]. Relatively intuitive interface.

  When I left Rails, this is one area I really missed.

  Time.use_zone("Singapore") { (Time.zone.now - 3.days).beginning_of_week }

  This readable line in datetime utils or even pendulum, is such a pain.

  [0] https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum

• We need a metric version of time.
  1 project | /r/gis | 11 Jan 2023

  You shouldn't do manual date and time calculations, there are people dedicated to developing tools for that and they're giving those tools for free! An example, Pendulum for Python.

• Stop Using Utcnow and Utcfromtimestamp
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2022

  Yes, the datetime api once timezone is involved is quite bad in python.

  This is why for anything that uses timezone, I use pendulum: https://pendulum.eustace.io/

  It's compatible with the datetime api, but it has sane default, nice tools to convert between timezone, some cool date adjustment stuff, and can humanize time in several languages.

  Basically, datetime has the same problem as text vs raw bytes in python 2.7, except it has never been fixed.

• Python Datetime (with examples)
  1 project | /r/Python | 3 Jun 2022

  Bless you for using the stock library but Pendulum is a much more humane way to work with dates and times in Python.

• What's the easiest / most efficient way to subtract 7 days from the current date?
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 2 Mar 2022

  Also, check the docs here if you're open to an alternative: https://pendulum.eustace.io/

• Date math: is there a faster / more pythonic / just all around better way to do this
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 11 Dec 2021
• Open-source Timezone Converter?
  2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Sep 2021

  Use Pendulum. It makes converting, adding and subtracting times trivially simple.

PyTime

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