Me: Datetime is one of the most used types beside the primitive ones. Let protocols specify what how it has to be serialized. This will serve as a baseline agai

Me: Datetime is one of the most used types beside the primitive ones. Let protocols specify what how it has to be serialized. This will serve as a baseline against which libraries will be measured. It significantly reduces questions on how to represent datetime, and libraries handling this have a significantly reduced space for caveats and errors. You: no-no-no, it won't work, let us make it significantly worse. Let us not specify this, and let everyone specify their own ad-hoc solutions with manual parsing and checks which will fail in every which way imaginable and let people serialise datetimes as `"\/Date(1320825600000-0800)\/"` for all I care because ... ?