It’s almost always better to use a standard than grow something at home. When your project gets bigger (which most projects of interest will), the inertia of th

It’s almost always better to use a standard than grow something at home. When your project gets bigger (which most projects of interest will), the inertia of the homegrown solution will become a detriment and liability. Only simple or novel use cases should be kept as internal libraries, and dates are not simple.