Feature Request: Expose Date() ISO-8601 string about tag HOT 2 OPEN

This is an interesting idea. The varying precision provided by the different metadata types is very frustrating. At one point I considered adding a Date method

Date() time.Time

but then decided against it because too many dates would then have silly values like 2008-01-01 where only the year 2008 is given etc...

Having a string value, that then requires more post-processing by the user is frustrating too, because you then have to introspect the string to work out what it actually means... Maybe we should just add our own date type or something!

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Yes if we try parse these, we'd need to store how much precision the value has.

However, my use case is just for sorting, where I actually don't need to process the string at all if the tags actually conform to ISO-8601 (as then it will just sort lexicographical).

I have already done this in my fork and it seems to work, though the test files are only partially updated because id3 and atom are just super weird. I'll probably throw in into a PR soonish.

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