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I just read your link, and it's really, really fucking stupid.
These are both almost acceptable compromises (if everyone agrees on them) but have a fundamental flaw which is that there can be false positives: what if you want to serialize the "1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00" string, as a real string, not as a date?
Context. Jesus fucking christ. What is the point of correctly parsing the data if you have no idea what it is?