When you store dates in a text field

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@ben_lubar said:

No, according to RFC 2550, you have those wrong. The year is always at least four digits long and the date can be omitted.

eeh. i gave that one the benifit of the doubt that the leading zeros of the date had been omitted.

i agree that doing so violates teh RFC but it's a human thing to do.