[drdaeman]

The minor issues are missing timezone and precision information.

But, most importantly, use of integers for datetime values hides type-level semantics. It's just integers and you, the end user, and not the deserializer, is responsible for handling the types.

I think it's quite inconvenient to do tons of `data["since"] = parse_datetime(data["since"])` all the time, for every model out there.

[Someone]

But they also allow strings with time zone information:

"Tag value 0 is for date/time strings that follow the standard format described in [RFC3339], as refined by Section 3.3 of [RFC4287]."

RFC4287: "A Date construct is an element whose content MUST conform to the "date-time" production in [RFC3339]. In addition, an uppercase "T" character MUST be used to separate date and time, and an uppercase "Z" character MUST be present in the absence of a numeric time zone offset."