Temporal Collapse in JS

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The talk explains why working with dates and times in JavaScript causes many bugs and pain points, and shows practical ways to avoid those problems. It covers common time-related issues and demonstrates approaches and tools to handle dates and time correctly in JS.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:02Time problems in France
3. 9:24Time zones explained
4. 15:27JS and time zones
5. 22:05Avoiding time collapse
6. 28:54Time zone rules
7. 33:34Localization issues
8. 35:44Time libraries compared
9. 40:07Summary

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