Programming in the 4th Dimension - Making Time Make Sense
summary
JavaScript's Date is an incomplete, mutable model that misparses ISO strings, mishandles DST gaps and odd offsets like Nepal's +5:45, and causes real-world failures from payroll to insulin pumps. The proposal introduces a new global with types for absolute timestamps (bigint nanosecond precision), local date/time, date-only/time-only, IANA time zone objects, durations and calendar types, offers a working polyfill, and is progressing from Stage 2 toward Stage 3.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:54DID YOU KNOW...
- 3:25MEET THE WORST SOLUTION POSSIBLE.
- 4:15MUTABILITY
- 7:31ABSOLUTE SCENARIOS
- 9:10DATETIME SCENARIOS
- 9:37USING DATETIME
- 15:31EXACTLY HOW OLD IS MR SULU
- 16:10ALTERNATE CALENDARS
- 18:25MAGGIE JOHNSON-PINT
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