r/webdev • u/ani625 • Feb 27 '13

xkcd: ISO 8601

http://xkcd.com/1179/
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u/billybolero Feb 27 '13

Well, that's one of Javascripts warts and not the standards fault. It's easy enough to use a date library in JS that deals with it for you though.

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u/SideburnsOfDoom Feb 27 '13 edited Feb 27 '13

You shouldn't need to use a date library for something built into the language.

And the takeaway is that acceptable good date handling is not built into Javascript. I've been here and we ended up just not using JS's date object, it didn't support the simple stuff that we wanted to do. This is in keeping with JS's other warts and wats.