Date representation Ambiguities: 06/08/04 August 6th, 2004 June 8th, 2004 August 4th, 2006 Unreadable: 20040425010541 April 25th, 2005, 01:05:41 "Weird" formats: third saturday 2004-03-10 16:33:17.11403+01 2001-11-29T13:20:01.123-05:00 23:41:00.0Z 04:05:07.789 +0930 1999.238