Earth Engine has introduced noncommercial quota tiers to safeguard shared compute resources and ensure reliable performance for everyone. Noncommercial projects use the Community Tier by default, though you can change a project's tier at any time.
[null,null,["Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC."],[],["The `serialize` method returns a string representation of a `ComputedObject`, specifically a `Date` object in the provided examples. It takes an optional boolean argument, `legacy`, to enable a legacy format. The JavaScript example serializes a date ('2021-4-30') using `date.serialize()`. Similarly, the Python example demonstrates the same functionality using `ee.Date` and `date.serialize()`.\n"]]