Learn Temporal API In 17 Minutes

Date in JavaScript suck to work with. They are clunky, have a terrible API, and overall make writing code less fun. Luckily, the Temporal API is being added to JavaScript which solves all the problems I have with dates and then some.

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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
00:50 - Polyfill Setup
02:18 - Basic Date Types
06:25 - Advanced Date Types
07:14 - Helper Methods
14:30 - Duration Type

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[Andressuquaz]

What a nice way to work with dates, hope it gets to stage 4

[json_bourne]

3:10 "21th" minute is definitely a highlight for me

[haukurorsson]

"Dates in javascript SUCK!" - Never have truer words been spoken.

[genehenson]

This is definitely exciting. But I think you’re a bit optimistic to say we might get it soon 😁. That jump from stage 3 to stage 4 is significant. Now everybody has to agree on implementation details…this is the hard work.

[krtirtho]

I voted up Temporal API in the tc39 request. Now, I feel prouder than ever before

[CirTap]

Brilliant! 👏🏻 Right on time!
I already have a project where I will make use of this (polyfill) ! Thank you 🙏🏻

[note]

This has been more magical than Excel's date/time/duration functions. I'm in awe. Thank you!

[MikeLukuma]

In case anyone of you is wondering (I did) : the "P" in ISO-Durations comes from "period"

[hoekbrwr]

I was always fighting with the date-time type. This explanation of Temporal Date shows it can be much easier to work with dates. This is about the difference between C and C++ in difficulty level.

[lostcarpark]

I was recently working on a project where I needed to convert between an event timezone and the users timezone, and it was a complete pain, and relied on converting to a strong and back to a date, which works differently in Firefox and Chrome, not to mention in different locales. This will make that so much easier.

[magnuskjelland]

Thank you very much for this video, dates has created so much frustration. So far I haven’t really been completely satisfied with date-fns or luxon. This looks really promising, thank you for sharing 💪

[threeone]

Pure gold!
I hate the old Date system.

[rianfuro]

5:40
> month: 1
Am is seeing this right? Month isn't 0-indexed anymore? What a time to be alive! :D

[ieronim]

easily the best dating advice I've seen

[jamienordmeyer]

This is seriously cool! Definitely looking forward to seeing it reach stage 4!

[tsuyoshi]

This is mind-blowing. Seems like once we start using this, we no longer need date-fns

[philmayfield]

Very useful, thanks for clear explanation! I cant wait for temporal to hit browsers.

[koigxiritbttgyuv]

I wonder what would happen when you compare with .equals() method two the same dates from different timezones, so the times would be different but pointing to the same "moment".

[sam]

I just recently had to fight with localization in JS. It will be nice to see this in JS. PHP has been a dream compared to what JS has put me through.

[kirillzlobin]

5:27 This is so amazing when we put 2022-01-01 into function and as a returned value got 2022-01-01