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Prefer explicit timezone-aware datetime strings.

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Section: Best practices

Use ISO 8601 timestamps

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2026-03-27T22:15:00Z
Explanation

ISO 8601 timestamps are broadly interoperable and less ambiguous than locale-formatted date strings.

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