{"categories":[{"label":"Software Development","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides a DateTime data type for working with date and time values, primarily designed for Zope integration but usable standalone with support for timezone conversion and flexible date/time string parsing.","skillfed_tags":["zope-ecosystem","timezone-handling"],"use_cases":["Integrating with Zope-based applications or APIs that expect DateTime objects.","Parsing flexible date/time strings in North American formats without manual validation.","Converting between multiple timezones while maintaining an immutable absolute time value.","Performing date arithmetic (adding/subtracting days) on datetime objects.","Legacy systems or codebases that already use Zope's DateTime and need to continue doing so."],"what_it_does":"DateTime is a specialized date/time type originating from Zope that encapsulates date and time values with built-in timezone awareness and conversion. It maintains an absolute UTC value internally while allowing representation in any recognized timezone. The package parses a wide variety of date/time string formats (flexible enough to handle North American conventions) and supports numeric operations\u2014subtracting two DateTime objects yields days between them, and adding/subtracting numbers from a DateTime shifts it by that many days.\n\nThe package is explicitly positioned as a Zope integration tool; the documentation itself recommends Python's built-in datetime module for most use cases unless you need to communicate with Zope APIs. It depends on zope.interface and pytz, and supports Python 3.10 through 3.14 on both CPython and PyPy. No vulnerabilities are currently known.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are working with Zope or a codebase that already depends on DateTime. No, if you are starting a new project\u2014Python's built-in datetime module is more standard and better documented. The package is mature, actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and installs easily, but its license treatment is unclear and it adds a dependency for functionality that the standard library already provides."},"id":"datetime","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/datetime","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/datetime.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/datetime/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2025-11-25","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"DateTime","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"This package provides a DateTime data type, as known from Zope. Unless you need to communicate with Zope APIs, you're probably better off using Python's built-in datetime module."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":16702528,"position":1142,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"6.0"}