html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,user_label,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,issue,issue_label,performed_via_github_app
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712363344,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712363344,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM2MzM0NA==,9599,simonw,2020-10-19T18:31:46Z,2020-10-19T18:31:46Z,OWNER,"As always with dates, the challenge is America. `mm/dd/yy` is indistinguishable from the more sensible `dd/mm/yy`. It's crucially important to visibly tell people which format you assumed, otherwise all kinds of weird invisible bugs can manifest.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712363825,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712363825,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM2MzgyNQ==,9599,simonw,2020-10-19T18:32:43Z,2020-10-19T18:32:43Z,OWNER,"Horrible thought: I bet there is data out there that uses more than one date format in the same table! So this needs to be exposed as a visible per-column setting.

Column action menu can help here, although it's not yet the full solution because it isn't yet visible on mobile.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712364317,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712364317,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM2NDMxNw==,9599,simonw,2020-10-19T18:33:42Z,2020-10-19T18:33:42Z,OWNER,"Related challenge: timezones. I think I'll punt on those for the moment and just concentrate on dates, but I should keep them in mind.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712364532,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712364532,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM2NDUzMg==,9599,simonw,2020-10-19T18:34:10Z,2020-10-19T18:34:10Z,OWNER,Lots of great example date data in https://biglocal.datasettes.com/COVID_WARN_Notices,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712365236,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712365236,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM2NTIzNg==,9599,simonw,2020-10-19T18:35:25Z,2020-10-19T18:35:25Z,OWNER,"Since I'm dealing with tables of data I usually have a whole column of examples, so heuristics that check for numbers-greater-than-12 could actually work well for many cases.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712365439,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712365439,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM2NTQzOQ==,9599,simonw,2020-10-19T18:35:50Z,2020-10-19T18:37:57Z,OWNER,"Maybe I don't need to add `dateutil` as a dependency here?

`pendulum` and `arrow` both depend on it so it's pretty deeply embedded in the Python date ecosystem. Adding it as a dependency seems reasonable.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712367285,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712367285,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM2NzI4NQ==,9599,simonw,2020-10-19T18:39:32Z,2020-10-19T18:39:32Z,OWNER,https://github.com/digital-land/brownfield-land-collection/blob/a09ddf9960a6af59e72dc02448f7b645e59bf227/bin/harmonise.py#L217-L247 is a beautiful example of this problem.,"{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,
https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1032#issuecomment-712397537,https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/issues/1032,712397537,MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDcxMjM5NzUzNw==,236498,saulpw,2020-10-19T19:37:55Z,2020-10-19T19:37:55Z,NONE,"python-dateutil is awesome, but it can only guess at one date at a time. So if you have a column of dates that are (presumably) in the same format, it can't use the full set of dates to deduce the format.  Also, once it has parsed a date, you can't get the format it used, whether to parse or render other dates.  These limitations prevent it from being a silver bullet for date parsing, though they're not enough for me to stop using it!","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",724878151,Bring date parsing into Datasette core,