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1. Zach Leatherman 2 min later

   I was very surprised to see date-fns weigh in at 40MB on disk (though it is very modular and tree-shakeable)

   1. Ariel Salminen 8 hr later

      @zachleat I had a picture of a floppy disk in my head while reading this and…

      1. Ollie Boermans 12 hr later

         @ariel @zachleat

         1. Zach Leatherman 15 hr later

            @ollicle @ariel under lock and key!!

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2. Timothy Leverett 18 min later

   @zachleat have you heard about Temporal? It's currently available in Firefox, but you can polyfill it in the meantime.

   1. Zach Leatherman 15 hr later

      @zzzzBov I did look through those APIs and it looks like they parse RFC 9557 which is less forgiving https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal/Instant#rfc_9557_format

3. Nathan Knowler 2 hr later

   @zachleat I sense a great deal of pain in whoever put this together.

   1. Zach Leatherman 15 hr later

      @knowler like millions of date strings suddenly cried out…

4. mb21 8 hr later

   @zachleat Why not just force people to use a specific format?

   1. Zach Leatherman 15 hr later

      @mb21 do you know a good ISO8601 parsing library that handles all the variants? 😅

      1. mb21 16 hr later

         @zachleat @mb21 I was thinking forcing _one_ of the iso variants 😅

         1. Zach Leatherman 16 hr later

            @mb21 okay! which one 😅😅😅

            1. mb21 19 hr later

               @zachleat @mb21 yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm
               this is the way.