Philip Chimento

This is the story of how I almost spent a night on the street — because of JavaScript's Date object! We'll dive in and try to understand why that happened, and how to prevent it. Luckily coming soon to a browser near you is Temporal, the JavaScript built-in API that makes this kind of mess-up a thing of the past.

Ever been fooled by one of the many pitfalls of the JS Date object? Do you bundle time zone data? Then check out Temporal! Temporal is a TC39 proposal currently being implemented in JS engines, that brings better date and time handling, and time zone awareness, to JS. This talk is a tour of what you need to know about Temporal, walking through one simple, one medium, and one complicated task each solved with Temporal.