Comment by ffsm8
3 days ago
the article has examples of unexpected behavior with timestamps too, so... How do you covert to your desired format without going through Date? Please don't say date-fns
3 days ago
the article has examples of unexpected behavior with timestamps too, so... How do you covert to your desired format without going through Date? Please don't say date-fns
I do not believe you understood the comment you replied to. A date number, whether from Date.now() or the Temporal equivalent, is not a time stamp value. It’s just a number.
Then I do not believe you understood the article you've commented on, because it essentially about the thing you handwaved away via
> Then you can format the Date.now() number it into whatever other format you want.
The while thing is about how to transition from a date, wherever it's string or timestamp to a date object. The idea is that you'll either format it to a string, do equality checks, calculate durations etc after after. Your idea of using timestamps doesn't address anything the article was about
I think the workflow your OP here and I use treats the timestamps (numbers) as the only value that matters. The "converted to" format is always just a temporary client side rendering, so the meticulous attention to conversions seems overkill. But I do see that there is tons of stuff about Date that is best ignored