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by Nutmog 3715 days ago
I disagree with the date comment "it’s easier to expose a raw date than a properly formatted date for the user’s locale". I'm constantly fighting software that tries to localize dates. Paypal thinks I live in country A and uses that format. My web host is in country B and uses their own format. I actually live in country C which has yet another format. It's no fun reconciling this in a spreadsheet which I have to keep changing the date formats in. Just use YYYY-MM-DD everywhere. Everyone knows what it means.