diff --git a/sections/designRules.md b/sections/designRules.md index 139554b..3cf9fe3 100644 --- a/sections/designRules.md +++ b/sections/designRules.md @@ -308,6 +308,9 @@ Handling date and time is tricky and can lead to confusion among clients. The da

Appending a default or irrelevant time portion to a date field can lead to interpretation errors. A publish date of 2025-07-24T00:00:00Z could for instance be rendered as July 23 in Ireland. A default time of 23:59 would in turn cause date confusion east of Greenwich.

To prevent conversion errors between storage and API, it is recommended to also store date values without a time portion (i.e. not as a timestamp). +

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