Hasty Treat - Temporal Date Objects in JavaScript
Oct 26, 2020•17 min
Episode description
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Temporal Date Objects in JavaScript — a WICKED AWESOME API for working with times and dates.
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Show Notes 05:11 - Temporal Now
You can get now Temporal.now.___
07:58 - Temporal Instants
A Temporal.Instant represents a fixed point in time, without regard to calendar or location. Most common way to show it is nanoseconds since unix epoch.
Can be formatted a few different ways.
09:59 - Calendar
Support for different types of calendars
11:43 - Durations
Temporal.Duration There are .from and .add and subtract() methods
12:47 - Other interesting parts
Timezones Temporal.ZonedDateTime
Temporal.YearMonth - represents a ym = new Temporal.YearMonth(2019, 6) // => 2019-06
14:51 - Polyfill (unstable)
Links Fixing JavaScrip Date - Maggie Pint
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/blob/main/docs/calendar.md#methods
https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/blob/main/docs/duration.md
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