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Pro tip #2: never ever rely on automatic parsing of dates. It's a lie and will corrupt your data. Either use dedicated "from_iso8601" functions, or manually sp
by sph 1y ago
Pro tip #2: never ever rely on automatic parsing of dates. It's a lie and will corrupt your data.
Either use dedicated "from_iso8601" functions, or manually specify the format of the input string ("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
- j1elo 1y agoThe list of things that devs should "never ever" do grows by the day... turns out most things, even the simplest of things, even sometimes the most apparently trivial things (like naming of people, too) are in reality almost always much more complex and difficult to get right on the first go than expected. But then discussion ensues about how programmers these days add libraries as dependencies for almost everything! :-) I guess at some point a middle ground must be found.