Hasty Treat - Temporal Date Objects in JavaScript

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Temporal Date Objects in JavaScript — a WICKED AWESOME API for working with times and dates. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. 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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