I requested an ISO 8601 date parser in the Python "datetime" library in 2012.[1] "datetime" could format into ISO 8601, but not parse strings. There were five ISO 8601 parsers available, all bad. After six years of bikeshedding, it was was fixed in 2018.

That's what it took to not write my own date parsing library.

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/60077

> That's what it took to not write my own date parsing library.

If you wrote your own date parsing library, there would be six ISO 8601 parsers available, all bad.

You should feel grateful for not having wasted your time.