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4. Why is it `Temporal.ZonedDateTime` not `Temporal.DateTime`? This is a fun story. Originally there was no `Temporal.ZonedDateTime`, and the type now called `Temporal.PlainDateTim…

I'm one of the volunteer open-source folks (called "proposal champions" in TC39 parlance) who designed the Temporal API. Sorry for the late reply, as you can imagine it's been a bu…

This is a big milestone to getting Temporal shipped in Chrome (unflagged), which will have huge positive on JS developers around the world. Thank you all for your hard work to get …

Yep. That said, for end users it's a fairly good story because consumer OSs have gotten very good at automatically adjusting clients' time zone based on geo-location. Just like whe…

> https://github.com/tc39/proposal-canonical-tz - appropriately to these comments, a proposal to handle tzdb changes, built on top of JS Temporal, includes some great examples of a…

It's already the standard! RFC 9557 was approved late last year. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9557.html

There are 5 different `islamic-*` calendars (and a `persian` calendar too) supported in JS today: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... There's no geograp…

Temporal includes `equals` methods on every type. String comparison sometimes works, but there are enough cases where it doesn't (especially when comparing strings that refer to th…