Re: [Matplotlib-users] Format date tick labels

[Mark L. <bre...@ya...>]

On 12/10/2012 20:38, Ethan Gutmann wrote:
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> I'm a little confused by this attitude.  I recognize that there are issues around dates, I've written a few date libraries myself to get around insane excel date issues (pop quiz for anyone at MS, was 1900 a leap year?) or just to simplify APIs for my own use.  But do neither of you think that nanoseconds are important to scientists?  I know of enough projects that work with pico (and a few with femto) seconds.  Even though I often work with climate data covering ~100s of years and used to work with geologic data covering ~billions of years, I may start working with raw laser data for distance measurements where nanoseconds can be a pretty big deal.  These data would be collected over a few years time, so a date utility that can handle that scale range would be useful.  I guess I'll be writing my own date/time library again and hacking together some way of plotting data in a meaningful way in matplotlib.
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> Don't get me wrong, matplotlib shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel here, but claiming that nobody could possibly care about 1e-12 seconds seems a little provincial.  My apologies if that is not how the above statements were intended.
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> regards,
> Ethan
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I actually said "What percentage of computer users wants a delta of 
1e-12?  I suspect that the vast majority of users couldn't care two 
hoots about miniscule time deltas in a world where changing time zones 
can cause chaos...".

How does this translate into "claiming that nobody could possibly care 
about 1e-12 seconds seems a little provincial"?

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.