Message2786

I definitely share your concern about modifying things from CPython's stdlib.  Everything in Lib copied over from CPythonLib has to be checked for improvements from its CPython version when jython is upgraded.  That ends up being a pretty significant burden.  In the specific case of datetime, it's not as big a deal.  datetime is implemented in C in CPython, so datetime.py is it's own, jython specific, beast.  We only have to be concerned with breaking compatibility with CPython, not carrying modifications forward.

However, your specific reason still applies and makes the reason for my patch moot.  I applied the patch in r3412.