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And yet, and yet....

After all these years, STILL date/time handling is an unimaginable kludge, even amongst systems from one house:

Formatted date/time strings that are acceptable to SQL Server are not acceptable to MS Access JET engine (and vice versa). DATETIME objects may or may not contain the time, depending on how they are generated so you cannot reliably check that they even represent the same day without faffing about.

Despite SQL supposedly being a 'standard', just wait until you try to mix T-SQL, MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle etc date handling.

And then there's unix time, MS time, etc...

Back in the early days of C/C++ I used, for many, many years, my own customised version of a Borland Date library because just no-one could handle even the differences between the UK and continental Europe, let alone other countries.

I realise that a lot of these problems are not due to the coding per se - it's the weird way we humans account for and represent time and date across the globe, but you really would think that after all this time, someone, somewhere would have devised a database driven, standardised date/time handling library that could be more or less universally acceptable. We have that for most human languages - just about - after all.
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