Kurro,
gracias for such a detailed and emotional story about the type of date/time - it caught on :)

I was catching this topic a bit in my article about physical units in programming languages: DataOps: Let's learn how to work with physical objects in IRIS

On such " fuzzy " objects as date/time, you want to get a universal method of use with minimization of errors. 
It seems to me that maximum use of built-in IRIS type can help here. And do the conversion on the edges of interaction - only in the interface modules.

What do you think? 

Thanks for the stats Robert! It's a good reminder and motivation to keep fine-tuning and sharing our code. 

Great news and an incredible achievement! Congratulations to the Developer Community Team and to all of us for this wonderful growth!