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Why your mental model of dates is broken, how programming languages gaslight us about time, and how Decipad’s interval-based approach fixes it.
by pgte 1y ago
Why your mental model of dates is broken, how programming languages gaslight us about time, and how Decipad’s interval-based approach fixes it.
- re 1y ago> Every date library you’ve ever used is lying to you. I feel like you haven't used most date libraries. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/YearMonth.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/YearMont... / https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#date-objects https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#date-objects / https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal/PlainDate https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
- windock 1y agoJava date/time handling is plain beautiful. I'm glad other languages like js started adopting the same approach.