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JavaScript is awesome (jsdate.wtf)

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/33754840

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[–] kinttach@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

In the process of being replaced.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal

JavaScript has had the Date object for handling date and time since its first days. However, the Date API is based on the poorly designed java.util.Date class from Java, which was replaced in the early 2010s; but, because of JavaScript's goal of backward compatibility, Date sticks around in the language.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

Hmm, I can believe that it was based on java.util.Date, but I don't remember that being as unpredictable. I guess, a different API to begin with, would have avoided a lot of problems, though...

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