Exploring Durations and Simplified Date Management 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.

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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)

• 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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