Currently date_time is a subtype of strings.. This is for historical reasons because we used to only support generating JSON, which does not know date times as anything else other than strings.
Nowadays, we generate into databases as well, which have first-class support for more primitive types (incl. date times) than JSON does. So we made internally the date_time nodes generate chrono::DateTime and format separately. But date_time is still a subtype of string, which is not the best UX.
Currently
date_timeis a subtype of strings.. This is for historical reasons because we used to only support generating JSON, which does not know date times as anything else other than strings.Nowadays, we generate into databases as well, which have first-class support for more primitive types (incl. date times) than JSON does. So we made internally the
date_timenodes generatechrono::DateTimeand format separately. Butdate_timeis still a subtype ofstring, which is not the best UX.This is to simply move the
content::string::DateTimenode to be acontent::Contentvariant of its own right, with its value of type like"type": "date_time".