date format in history

[pdobsan]

Thank you for your software and service.

May I suggest to use the ISO 8601 date format (yyyy-mm-dd) in the key string of history. While parsing the current format not a big deal using the the ISO standard has some benefits. I am sure your current and potential users are from all over the word. Using the ISO format the interpretation of the response of your service would be easier for everyone.

During conversion into the ISO format you might be able to do some error checking since as the country names show your data source is far form stable for obvious reasons.

Yes, I am aware of the complain about the recent change in history. Despite of that I still suggest the ISO date format while you are at the cleaning up the history array.

[ExpDev07]

This is a major breaking change so introducing this at the current endpoints will not be possible. I’m working on a /v2/ where I’m going to do be doing this.

[pdobsan]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 09:22:17AM -0700, ExpDev wrote: This is a major breaking change so introducing this at the current endpoints will not be possible. I’m working on a /v2/ where I’m going to do be doing this.

Sure, doing that for /v2/ is fine. When do you expect /v2/ to be ready?

[ExpDev07]

Introduced in /v2/. See https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api/blob/master/README.md for examples and documentation.