Github user sjcorbett commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-brooklyn/pull/682#issuecomment-110296770
@ahgittin I think your comment that the "other option is to mandate a
single format but that makes things harder to work with as people then have to
look up the syntax" is erroneous - people will need to look up the syntax
accepted by Brooklyn anyway. Why is "10.11-2020-12.01" read as
"2020-12-01-1011" and not "2020-11-10 12:01"? Brooklyn shouldn't make the
decision, the user should supply the format string for their bonkers date.
We gain some flexibility and we gain a lot of ambiguity. To understand what
Brooklyn will do with my date I need to understand about 400 lines of Java. I
would prefer to just have to scan a bunch of DateFormatters, even if they are
more expensive to express.
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