My Battle with Datetimes in Prod

[tccole]

I spent 8 hours debugging datetime parsing in a PySpark migration. Every solution failed… built-in functions returned silent NULLs, UDFs took 6 hours to run, pandas UDFs still failed on 8% of rows.

[abstractspoon]

>> Date inference is genuinely hard—there’s no universal standard

Umm, ISO is the universal standard