[Animats]

I went through a similar decade-long fire drill around ISO8601 date parsing in Python.[1] Issue started in 2012, and after about a decade a solution was in the standard library.

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.python/c/Q2w4R89Nq1w

[baliex]

Thank you thank you thank you.

Parsing dates with anything other than fromisoformat feels totally backwards in comparison. We were using ciso8601 until fromisoformat was in the standard library. And now things are incredibly simple and reliable.