Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
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JavaScript's Date object has been broken for 30 years since it was hastily ported from Java in 1995. The new Temporal API, championed by Bloomberg, Igalia, and others, finally reached Stage 4 and is shipping in modern browsers, providing proper time zone handling, immutability, nanosecond precision, and calendar support to replace JavaScript's fundamentally flawed date/time system.
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