A lack of a standard date/time type means that some people use UNIX time, others use ISO strings (which you then need to detect, parse and handle errors for), and others are crazy and use their own format, localised just to make it fun (are people writing JSON using Django templates or PHP date formatting - yes, yes they are).
To have one standard way that everyone does dates would be nice.
PS: And the HN measure of "More comments than upvotes?" clearly works as controversial/bad ideas do generally follow that rule.
A lack of a standard date/time type means that some people use UNIX time, others use ISO strings (which you then need to detect, parse and handle errors for), and others are crazy and use their own format, localised just to make it fun (are people writing JSON using Django templates or PHP date formatting - yes, yes they are).
To have one standard way that everyone does dates would be nice.
PS: And the HN measure of "More comments than upvotes?" clearly works as controversial/bad ideas do generally follow that rule.