One such thing is Date fields, there are a couple of them with no clear documentation (on the Field management page that is, there are if you Google, but who does that?). Anyway, I needed a Date field. The ISO sounded good, pretty much assumed it was just related to the data entry as I was going to feed in a 170000 nodes with date & time field in a easy for machines to parse format.
How.Wrong.Was.I
Drupal uses, obviously, a SQL database. Meaning that dates, should, obviously be stored in a SQL a DATE, TIME, DATETIME type right ? Oh, no no no.
What does Drupal do ? Use a varchar.
No wonder searching, by date ranges, on my collection of 170000 nodes was just a tiny bit slow.
