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JavaScript Date/Time Handling

Discussions revolve around the pitfalls of JavaScript's native Date object, recommendations for libraries like Luxon, date-fns, js-joda, and the upcoming Temporal API, and advice against rolling custom date/time solutions.

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kiwijamo • Mar 1, 2024 • View on HN

Another reason to use exisiting date/time libraries instead of rolling your own.

Klathmon • Jun 30, 2017 • View on HN

Welcome to the rabbit hole that is date/time handling.

beznet • Feb 13, 2021 • View on HN

I have a date/time bug that I really dont feel like figuring out right now

Ygg2 • Jun 11, 2023 • View on HN

It's going to be hard to have a date/time format when no standardized date/time lib.

kentnguyen • Jan 13, 2012 • View on HN

Cool stuff. Great for people who don't want to mess with Date handling.

k__ • Nov 18, 2017 • View on HN

How does it compare to date-fns?

TazeTSchnitzel • Jun 30, 2017 • View on HN

Is this using a proper date/time library underneath, or did you write it yourself?

dxgarnish • Dec 2, 2020 • View on HN

I highly recommend using Luxon for dates in JS. At the very least reading up on the library.

darepublic • Jan 31, 2025 • View on HN

Not all use cases related to time are too complex to just use the existing javascript Date

noodlesUK • Dec 29, 2021 • View on HN

What’s the comparison with the well known JS/TS date time libraries such as date-fns or the older moment.js?