[gdal-dev] skipping date type detection of GeoJSON properties

[Keith Jenkins]

Hi,

Is there anyway to skip OGR's automatic detection of date types?  When
using ogr2ogr, I'd like to avoid the inadvertent modification of
certain date-like strings.  For example, if I have this GeoJSON...

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {
        "identifier": "3000-02-31",
        "name":"a"
      },
      "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 1, 1 ] }
    },
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "properties": {
        "identifier": "2000-01-01",
        "name":"b"
      },
      "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ 2, 1 ] }
    }
  ]
}

... ogr2ogr converts the identifiers to "3000\/02\/31" and "2000\/01\/01".

Is there any way to preserve the original formatting of these strings?

Many thanks,
Keith