Logged In: YES user_id=619560 I would agree with your assessment of the issue regarding the TimeFromTicks() API and find it quite reasonable. Either implement both at the C and Python levels or not at all. Since there is no consensus on this, none it is. :-) Did you have a chance to review the actual code? The changes are fairly minimal but you might have questions about readability, names, etc. It would be great if this could be included in an upcoming 2.4 alpha/beta so that I can provide support in cx_Oracle for the next release. Thanks for your time.