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deepsun on July 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Never write your own date parsing library

Nothing came close in quality to Joda-time from Java (later adopted with small fixes as "java.time" built-in). Why not using js-joda port?

yas_hmaheshwari on July 26, 2025 [–]

I never knew that js-joda existed. I love Joda library.

Its surprising that date / time parsing is screwed in multiple languages

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