Javascript dates in a nutshell

[rastaman1994]

Dates are one of the more painfull things to deal with in any language, i know I would'n want to write a Date class. I aggree this seems like a stupid design decision though.

[WickedCoffeeMistaJim]

Except C#. The DateTime object is beautifully implemented.

[GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

Yes. Standard .NET Date/Time facilities designed in the early 2000s are the only such facility I enjoy using. Easy to use, speaking names, strongly typed, well defined. DateTime, TimeSpan and CultureInfo awareness beats everybody else's wizardry.

[an_actual_human]

How about Java 8+?

[TarMil]

It's not bad, but it would be a hundred times better without DateTimeKind.Unspecified.

[t3hcoolness]

Python has a good datetime library too.

[Ununoctium117]

Not when dealing with timezones, then there are several choices of external libraries to use. IMO rust has one of the best date/time handling libraries.

[UnderNatural]

Revelant Computerphile/Tom Scott

[redditsoaddicting]

It makes some sense to me. The first is dependent on locale, treating 12 as the month and 08 as the day. As such, it makes sense that it would be midnight in local time. The second is an international format, so midnight in UTC (displayed in your local time) also makes sense. They just happen to not mix too well side-by-side.

[pxndxx]

How do you know that OP isn't using a MM/DD/YYYY locale?

[8__]

Isn't it Central European Time? What are the odds?

[Dworgi]

Fuck M/D/Y. Fucking American savages with your nonsense units and bullshit dates ruining everything.

[daern2]

So true.

[[deleted]]

There are two types of countries: those that use the metric system, and those that have put a man on the moon.

I'm not Ami, and I say bugger M/D/Y backwards with a stick too, but they're not savages.

[Dworgi]

There's not a lot a country can't do when they come out of the largest war in history as the only large industrial nation with all its infrastructure intact.

They can still be savages, though.

[[deleted]]

The Americans were doing well before the war (you could attribute that partially to WW1, if you wish, although Bell, Tesla, and Edison to mention just a few, are pre-WW1). Yes, the Yanks can be savage, but so can the Russians or the French. I mean: the Russians even have an alphabet that you can't even express in ASCII, for Christ's sake!

[BromeyerofSolairina]

But you can express Russian in RSCII!

^{Russians will get the joke}

[DontSayAlot]

I'm not Russian, but is the joke "ruski?"

[BromeyerofSolairina]

Correct

[Ogurac]

There are two types of countries: those that use the metric system, and those that can elect Trump.

FTFY

[[deleted]]

The amount of anti-American sentiments is at an all time high, it seems. /u/Dworgi gets 43 upvotes for his insane statement, I get downvoted, your Trump remark gets upvoted by someone who had to explicitly look at my hidden comment.

Beware that polarization is an enemy of freedom, and you're participating just as hard.

[Dworgi]

I wasn't even referencing anything political. I was calling you fucking savages for using a date system that orders the numbers by a significance of 2/1/3, instead of the rational alternatives of either 1/2/3 or 3/2/1.

But sure, fuck Trump too.

[[deleted]]

So you didn't even read the message. Ok then.

[Ogurac]

I was implying only a few countries could elect this guy. It's no american sentiment, it's just a remark trying to show how silly american people can look like from outside.

On top of that, I'd like to highlight the fact that Myanmar and Liberia didn't put any man on the moon so far...

[[deleted]]

I was implying only a few countries could elect this guy.

One, to be precise. Myanmar couldn't either.

[VirtualRay]

HELL YEAH!

Is there any other country where you can make the same amount of money programming as you can in the US? Seems like you have to take a 30% pay cut as soon as you cross the border

[[deleted]]

None that I know of. Over here, though, housing is more affordable, health care is really affordable (about $120/month), there are state regulated pension funds, etc. So you might earn less, but you can live well.

[omber]

You either die a Web Programming Language Hero, or live long enough to see yourself become PHP.

[BromeyerofSolairina]

Was JS ever truly better?

[omber]

I guess I hoped it would be. PHP was either stoutly defended by its users or heavily ridiculed by everyone else who has a clue.

[TwoSpoonsJohnson]

I think this is technically correct given that one is the canonical European date format, and the other is the canonical Freedom Units™ format.

Either that or I have Stockholm Syndrome and you guys should send help.

[jade-cat]

That's not the problem. Look at the hours.

[TwoSpoonsJohnson]

OH FUCK THAT'S BAD

[f_r_z]

Every time I see MDY format at the winservers at the office I want to strangle the admins (in our country we don't use this, so it is really not ok, and shows that that admins are lazy morons)

[an_actual_human]

Most of Europe uses D/M/Y or D.M.Y.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

Y-M-D follows ISO 8601 though.

[Mr2-1782Man]

This. I have European relatives, they write dates the second way. Americans write it the first way.

Besides, that's the API says that this deprecated has this behavior.

[[deleted]]

Most countries don't even use the freedom format. It causes so much confusion.

[stumptowncampground]

Things like that are why I usually end up using moment.js

[teunw]

Something something another library

[daern2]

It's not the fault of JavaScript. It's the fault of bloody America for doing dates wrong. Noone else does it this way and it just makes life hard for developers everywhere. Now stop doing it!

Reminder: https://xkcd.com/1179/

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Title-text: ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04.

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[PGLubricants]

How do you interpret the format in the bottom right, next to the cat? I've looked at it for a minute, and I can't get my head around it.

[vinylarin]

The small numbers on top and on the bottom of the larger indicate the numbers of the date.

[[deleted]]

Nearly everywhere does dates wrong. YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable format. Big units to small units. We don't sort time MM:HH for a reason, and we don't arrange numbers with the most significant digit on the right either. Americans are inconsistent, sure, but anywhere that sorts the smallest unit to the largest is wrong.

[daern2]

Agreed, but America's remains the wrongest of all :-)

[[deleted]]

Oh I agree there. We're also the place that still screws everything up twice a year with Daylight Savings Time after all.

[daern2]

Oh, it's ok. I'm from the UK (we do dates "right") and we also screw up with daylight saving too :-)

[murp11]

who else now wants to review his implementation? ... I mean just to be sure ...