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Support of legacy data formats is one of the reasons. Of course, it’s very unlikely that someone would ever use dd-MM-YYYY intentionally.
by ivan_gammel 8y ago
Support of legacy data formats is one of the reasons. Of course, it’s very unlikely that someone would ever use dd-MM-YYYY intentionally.
- geocar 8y agoWhy exactly do you think a legacy format will benefit from a special mini-language? It's not going to be faster, and as we can see: It's more likely to have bugs.
- ivan_gammel 8y agoBecause it's a compact and user-friendly form of specifying such formats. Some strange behavior in edge cases doesn't invalidate the benefits of not writing a new parser any time you need to handle some old representation of date.