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They should add an event to detect when someone changes timezones. That could be another entry in the "falsehoods that programmers believe about time": programmers believe that your timezone is fixed during usage. But in reality there are millions of people moving between timezones every day.
If you are on a plane or ISS you could even be timezoneless.
They should add an event to detect when someone changes timezones. That could be another entry in the "falsehoods that programmers believe about time": programmers believe that your timezone is fixed during usage. But in reality there are millions of people moving between timezones every day.
They should add an event to detect when someone changes timezones. That could be another entry in the "falsehoods that programmers believe about time": programmers believe that your timezone is fixed during usage. But in reality there are millions of people moving between timezones every day.
If you are on a plane or ISS you could even be timezoneless.
They should add an event to detect when someone changes timezones. That could be another entry in the "falsehoods that programmers believe about time": programmers believe that your timezone is fixed during usage. But in reality there are millions of people moving between timezones every day.
Coming but only available in one browser or run time, and then with a feature flag.
Certainly within the context of browsers. There is a reason why websites like https://caniuse.com exist in the first place. If you pay attention you will also see that for APIs on MDN it will also have a browser compatibility list.
They should add an event to detect when someone changes timezones. That could be another entry in the "falsehoods that programmers believe about time": programmers believe that your timezone is fixed during usage. But in reality there are millions of people moving between timezones every day.
For example, store dates in UTC and render instantaneously in current time zone.
If the time zone handling can be added like Golang time package, that would make it very convenient.
There are quite a few things marinating in the TC39 pot right now. This is one that I wish would ship sooner, rather than later. I do recognize that it takes dev effort (on the part of v8, JSC, and SpiderMonkey engineers) to get the major browsers to support any of these new features. So I truly appreciate all that folks are doing to move the ball forward. The impatient person in me is cheering, "now get Records and…
[edit: For those who don't know, Dictionary was a type in AS3 that let you use any object reference or string or number as a unique key, with any type of value attached. Garbage collection worked around this so it wasn't a weak reference as long as the dictionary object itself was alive. Think of a Javascript Set except with strongly typed keys of any kind you specified. Errors thrown at compile time. God..I miss that language.]