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The perfect date is YYYY/MM/DD. US and every where else conflict with DD/MM/YYYY & MM/DD/YYYY.
Path separators in my date strings? Hell no!
Sanitize your inputs. Become delimiter agnostic!
I control the date format, why would I choose something that requires additional logic to handle?
RedWeasel loaded slashes into your stream today though.
This is a discussion about choice of date format, not choice of date parser.