Re: A structured format for dates?

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 24 August 2022 05:28 UTC

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Am 24.08.2022 um 05:32 schrieb Tommy Pauly:
> ...
> - If the benefit we’re providing by using the date-text format is to make things more easily human readable, I’ll likely want to have the choice to view the date while debugging in whatever timezone I prefer and using whatever date presentation format I prefer. So, the tools will ideally be translating the value anyway.
> ...

That one I don't buy: if you want to convert to a local date format and
TZ, you still can; it's just an extra conversion step your tool will do
for you.

(Besides the fact that most prorammers I know of prefer to look at
ISO8601 UTC dates.)

Best regards, Julian