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DateTime parsing

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Description

This code is running over .Net but not Fable 2.

let dateString = "05/01/2008 +1:00"
let offsetDate = DateTimeOffset.Parse(dateString)

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:14 (14 by maintainers)

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Alxandrcommented, Jun 28, 2018

IMHO; the best way would be to only allow ISO dates YYYY-MM-DD (optionally with times). This could easily be enforced with a regex, and will always yield the same result. Will likely also prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot.

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Alxandrcommented, Dec 12, 2018

I agree. Also, the guid parsing will not be system specific.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 02:09 Lukas Rieger <notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah, its never easy.

My opinion would be to restrict to ISO dates here, because the rest isn’t guaranteed to work.

In the Guid case I would NOT follow ISO, because .NET doesn’t, Guid.Empty breaks, and I don’t think there are any failures from doing so.

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