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> By the way, could at least us developers use ISO dates instead of whatever our local conventions are?

2023-28 and 2023-39 aren't any more readable.

Usually when people say ISO8601, they mean "2023-07-12T09:20:00Z". But the actual spec, which no one reads because it costs money to access, allows dozens of other variations. (Too many IMHO.)

RFC3339 is compatible with "the good parts" of ISO8601 and it's also free.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339

I interpret "ISO 8601" to be "lexicographically sortable in chronological order" or maybe "big endian".

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