When converting from YAML to JSON with the `Convert Between JSON and YAML` action, the format of dates and timestamps is not preserved. about stringmanipulation HOT 2 CLOSED

That seems not possible, without a complete re-implementation. The format gets lost when converting from yaml to an object.

But there could be a date format settings as a workaround.

@m-radzikowski opinion?

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Interesting.

Conversion is done with two libraries, snakeyaml and gson. When we parse the YAML input without providing the input type, snakeyaml tries to be clever and detect types. From the docs:

Implicit types
When a tag for a scalar node is not explicitly defined, SnakeYAML tries to detect the type applying regular expressions to the content of the scalar node.
1.0 -> Float
42 -> Integer
2009-03-30 -> Date

But this behavior can be overridden by implementing a custom resolver, like this.

Let me try it and I will submit a fix.

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