Knowing how many fuckups and bugs which have happened trough the years because of incorrect handling of times and dates, I can't believe he advocates that they

Knowing how many fuckups and bugs which have happened trough the years because of incorrect handling of times and dates, I can't believe he advocates that they should be "ubiquitous ... data structures representing times (which) can be manipulated by any function in the system." Obviously the thought of a one single encapsulated DateTime class which manipulates time and dates (correctly) for us is a horrible idea.