Well, it’d be less of a nightmare than returning it in a random locale!

At least when it’s locale-dependent I can use a look up table and parse it somehow, but getting it back in MM/DD YYYY?

I’d love to just get ISO8601 ideally, btw, but who knows if that will ever happen.

(Also, you should check out Microsoft Excel, its date type and CSV converter are both locale-dependent. Locale of the program opening the file, not the file itself. A file created in de_DE will be unusable in en_US)

Do not look at Excel when thinking about appropriate handling of dates and times.

It makes a fantastic checklist of things you shouldn't do while handling dates though!