Thoughts Have Wings | The Third Place of Dee Martin
As we prepare to “fall back” this weekend in the US I’ve been thinking about writing code that deals with dates and times. This is easy to get wrong and is a common cause of bugs.
The first issue is how to write dates. For example, if I write 11/03/2021 that means November Third in the US, but in other countries it might be March Eleventh. Oops.
With that in mind, I always use ISO 8601 format for dates: 2021-11-03. To me this just makes sense. The year is the biggest so it comes first, followed by the month and day. In a Rails console you can try something like this:
Thoughts Have Wings | The Third Place of Dee Martin