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Correct date handling (including parsing) can be monumentally important. Imagine an app that reminds people when to take their medications, for example
by poink 1y ago
Correct date handling (including parsing) can be monumentally important. Imagine an app that reminds people when to take their medications, for example
- what 1y agoYou typically take medication at a set time every day. You don’t need to parse dates for that.
- poink 1y ago1) Dates are often stored as strings, so parsing them correctly is a necessary component of storing them. Also, those dates need not be simple app state. They could come from an API provided by your doctor/pharmacy 2) Many people (especially the elderly) take enough medications on different schedules that managing them all would be a significant cognitive load for anyone It’s just an illustrative example, though. My point is getting dates right (including parsing their string representations) often matters quite a bit. If you disagree, let’s argue about that rather than quibble about the minutiae of the example
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