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No Randal, that's not an acceptable way to express a date.
May 18th 2002
2nd of May 2018
He knows.
ISO 8601 only, please.
Yes, correct answer
2002-05-18
2002, May 18th
Sure, how about 2018-W06-1? Or 2018-036?
ISO 8601 contains way too many obscure formats. RFC 3339 is pretty much a subset and defines only sensible ones. It also allows
2018-02-05 08:02:43-00:00
(no T and explicitly specifying no timezone)When you plan your work on weekly sprints, week numbers become second nature.
Yeah but that defeats the purpose of an universal format.