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<p>Appending a default or irrelevant time portion to a date field can lead to interpretation errors. A publish date of <code>2025-07-24T00:00:00Z</code> could for instance be rendered as July 23 in Ireland. A default time of 23:59 would in turn cause date confusion east of Greenwich.
<p class="note">To prevent conversion errors between storage and API, it is recommended to also store date values without a time portion (i.e. not as a timestamp).
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<p>A response containing a field "birthDate" with a date value to denote the date of birth of a child in The Netherlands.
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<dt>How to test</dt>
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