Merge remote-tracking branch 'github/main'

Author: Toby Allen

readme.md

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 # MSSQL Dateformat Fixer
 
-There is an international date format Y-m-d that is supposed to be universal, however the MSSQL implementation is flawed
-and is not universal and incorrect interprets it as Y-d-m which is beyond idiotic.
-Laravel uses Y-m-d as their international format, which can lead to errors depending on SQL SERVER Settings.
-This command checks the vendor directory for the file and updates it if required.
+There is an [international date format (ISO standard)](https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html)  (YYYY-MM-DD) `Y-m-d` that is supposed to be universal, however the MSSQL implementation is flawed
+and is NOT universal and incorrectly interprets `Y-m-d`  as `Y-d-m` which is beyond idiotic.
+Laravel uses `Y-m-d` as their international format, which can lead to errors depending on SQL SERVER Settings.
+
+There is one format `Ymd` which is absolutely gauranteed to always be interpreted by SQLServer as `Ymd`.  This command patches the file in 
+illuminate library to use `Ymd` instead of `Y-m-d`.  I [Requested](https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/49074) that the change be made in the illuminate library but it was felt the change
+was too big to be made. 
+
+I hope this is helpful to those of you out there using MSSQL with PHP/Laravel.
 
 ## Installation
 
@@ -40,4 +45,11 @@ on install and update.
 This is due to the fact that whenever `composer update` or `composer install` is run and the illuminate package
 is updated it will overwrite the `SqlServerGrammar.php` with the origional version, so it is necessary to call
 the command whenever this has the potential of happening.  If no change has been made to the file it will
-not be modified.
+not be modified.
+
+#### Further reading on why this is necessary
+
+This is discussed in several places online
+
+ - [sqlblog.org/2009/10/16/bad-habits-to-kick-mis-handling-date-range-queries](https://sqlblog.org/2009/10/16/bad-habits-to-kick-mis-handling-date-range-queries)
+ - [stackoverflow.com/questions/19565320/why-is-sql-server-misinterpreting-this-iso-8601-format-date](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19565320/why-is-sql-server-misinterpreting-this-iso-8601-format-date)