Date is out, Temporal is in

Re:Date is out, Temporal is in by WorldMaker on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:58PM (#46596560)

The fun trick is that Invalid Date is still a Date:

    > let invalid = new Date('not a date')
    > invalid
    Invalid Date
    > invalid instanceof Date
    true

You were half-correct on expecting NaN, it's the low level storage of Invalid Date:

    > invalid.getTime()
    NaN

Invalid Date is just a Date with the "Unix epoch timestamp" of NaN. It also follows NaN comparison logic:

    > invalid === new Date(NaN)
    false

It's an interesting curio directly related to NaN.

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Re:Date is out, Temporal is in by tyilo on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @03:30AM (#46598537)

> Invalid Date is just a Date with the "Unix epoch timestamp" of NaN. It also follows NaN comparison logic: > > > invalid === new Date(NaN) > false

This is just because a JS Date is an object and have nothing to do with the inner representation.

    > new Date(0) === new Date(0)
    false

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