Part 1: The Date
First, let’s talk about the basics. We all know the usual data types – strings, numbers, and booleans. They’re like the bread and butter of programming. Databases and programming languages have matured to the point where they can safely handle these data types, and we don’t think twice about how we store, retrieve and perform operations on them. They know that we know that there are a set of expectations, and it should work....