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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by anowell on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:51AM (#47346596)
Agreed. We've almost eradicated our usage of JS Date - fixing plenty of bugs along the way, and then I extracted thousands of lines of conversions and formatting from our production app (scheduling focused) into a temporal-fun package to make it Temporal more ergonomic for lots of common cases.

npmjs.com/package/temporal-fun

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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by 698969 on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:09AM (#47348578)
That looks neat although your package is missing a link to the source repository.
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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by anowell on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:58AM (#47349398)
Good catch. Will get that added today.

github.com/howie-code/temporal-fun

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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by lightwords on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:30AM (#47348743)
Word of warning Temporal relies on the Intl API for formatting, and support in Chrome is very limited due to their binary size constraints. As a result, you'll need to polyfill unsupported languages using format.js
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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by rafram on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:43AM (#47348872) 

  $ du -sh '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'
   1.3G    /Applications/Google Chrome.app
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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by lightwords on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:56AM (#47348978)
There are numerous reports on this being an issue e.g. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40624456
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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by anowell on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:05AM (#47349449)
Thanks for the heads up. Will think on this and will probably just document the polyfill.
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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by jacquesm on Thursday March 12, 2026 @09:01AM (#47349980)
That's complete crazy.
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Re:Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript by TimTheTinker on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:52AM (#47351439)
Format.js polyfills a lot of stuff that's already supported in modern browsers, and seems to prefer its own polyfills to the native APIs.

Is there any way to force it to only use (and bundle) the polyfills that are needed assuming 2025+ era browsers?

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