Michael Catanzaro wrote:
The downside, of course, is that the new format is much harder for a
human to eyeball.
That's not a matter of course, it's a matter of what one is used to.
Dates are difficult to read in general because there is such a plethora
of date formats in use everywhere, many of which are ambiguous. At first
it takes longer than necessary to even recognize that a group of
characters is a date. Then I must figure out which order the year, month
and day are written in, which often requires a careful analysis. After
that is done I can finally read the date.
Personally I'm most used to the standard date format and the standard
time format, so those are easy to read to me. I'm not so used to seeing
T as a separator, so I find it easier to read when the date and time
are separated by a space, but the desire to have the timestamp as a
single token is understandable.
Björn Persson