On 18.11.21 15:10, Alessio Stalla wrote:
Dates are not something to mess with lightheartedly. All kinds of weird exceptions exist. In some dates in some timezones, midnight (i.e. 00:00) does not exist: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18489927/a-day-without-midnight <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18489927/a-day-without-midnight> These kinds of implicit conversions may look like they simplify things but actually they hide nasty bugs under the carpet, that you'll only discover when it's Jan 1st 2031 and you get angry calls in the morning while you're hungover, or when your first customer who was born at, I don't know, 1978-08-01 at midnight in the Fiji islands signs up into the application. Please, don't do that. MySQL did that, and I've already suffered because of it.
I learned that everything with Strings and times/dates/resources/outputs for multiple languages/regions are not to underestimate ;) But this here is really news to me... wow bye Jochen
