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new Date("wtf") (jsdate.wtf)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a reason almost everyone use some Date lib, like Luxon and not the built in. And well, having a horrible built in lib that they can't change due to legacy code breaking is nothing really new or unique to JS.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The built-in lib is fine for basic stuff unless you do some crazy shit like expecting "2" to parse as a valid date.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    For very basic things maybe, but it has a lot of other weird problems and restrictions. Mutability, no real timezone support, very limited arithmetic, to name a few. As soon as you move beyond the very basic, you want someting more robust.

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