Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017)

Re:Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017) by paulddraper on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:10PM (#22439693)

JS Dates are terrible, but not just the native stuff...there isn't a single good library either. [1]

A good library instants (1582852000000 ms since epoch), durations (5000 ms), periods (2 months), offsets (-0700), timezones (America/Denver), date (4/3/2019), and time (4:45 PM).

Instead I am stuck with good treatment of like two or three of these in any JS library I pick up -- usually instant and duration -- and I have to hammer things to fit.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21669829

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Re:Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017) by jasonkillian on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:18PM (#22439735)

I've found js-joda is a good JS datetime library: https://github.com/js-joda/js-joda

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Re:Fixing JavaScript's Date (2017) by paulddraper on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:34PM (#22440298)

Interesting, thanks!

I've used Joda and java.time a lot, and I have a very high opinion of both.

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