Or you could just use the standard '2001-08-12' with no special syntax needed and avoid the problem altogether. ISO-8601 or it's invalid. There's no reason to

Or you could just use the standard '2001-08-12' with no special syntax needed and avoid the problem altogether. ISO-8601 or it's invalid. There's no reason to allow other formats or need other syntaxes when we have a 35 year old standard to use.