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Re: A structured format for dates?

Ian Swett <ianswett@google.com> Wed, 24 August 2022 07:01 UTC

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From: Ian Swett <ianswett@google.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 02:57:56 -0400
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I prefer an integer format over a text one for the reasons Tommy pointed
out.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 1:29 AM Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
wrote:

> 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
>
>

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