ENH: Change how datetime works in metadata.

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Feature Type

• Adding new functionality to valor

• Changing existing functionality in valor

• Removing existing functionality in valor

Problem Description

Time representations in valor mimic Python's datetime objects of datetime, date, time and timedelta.

The issue with this arises when using Valor's TypeScript client. JavaScript's built-in Date does not stratify between date, time and datetime and has no representation of timedelta. This causes problems when encoding and decoding from valor's schemas.

A value created by the python client with type date would not be accessible to the typescript client as it has not way of generating such an object when using its builtin types.

Feature Description

Consolidate valor.schemas.Date and valor.schemas.Time into valor.schemas.DateTime.

• datetime.date and datetime.time objects will return from an api request as datetime.datetime objects.

valor.schemas.Duration which corresponds to datetime.timedelta should be removed in favor of valor.schemas.Float which will store seconds as a float.

Additional Context

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