That’s how you should format a date in JS/TS!

any date format other than ISO should be abhorred and killed with fire.

What is this, code bowling?

@ryios That was sarcastic 😅

This piece of code is coming from a coworker 🙂

@TechTech0 having lived in both US and UK the day month, month day thing causes so much hassle, ISO ftw

I set every date format to ISO now

Wait... ddMMyyyy, that's the best one

@ryios your shitty peace of code doesn’t even add the slashes. Dude holy fuck. You’re fired.

@ryios

MMddYYYY... that's illegal.

I would use

Date(isoDateString).toLocaleDateString(<preferred locale>, {year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric'})

Resulting in long-formatted "19 April 2019".

Why?

For machines, there are only 2 valid formats in my opinion: ISO and Unix.

For humans, fuck off with this dash vs slash and month-numbering-in-the-wrong place shit. Again, only 2 valid formats: Readable ("19 April 2019") and Relative ("Today" or "In 3 months").

What I usually do is the human thing for display, with an ISO date as a tooltip.

@bittersweet For humans, ISO8601* is by far the best. I hate the other formats, they are so much harder to read. And please don't use that relative garbage. I hate it when it says "1 year ago".

*It does not really matter if there is a T or a space in the middle. ISO8601 requires a T but i don't care.

@happygimp0 if you dont care about timezones you'll get angry stupid users directly/indirectly breathing over your neck.

@bittersweet is absolutely correct.

@bioDan I don't understand what this has to do with timezones, you can display IS8601 with or without timezone information.

No return types?

No docstrings?

@yehaaw 😅
I had to explain to that guy, that we must avoid using ‘any’, otherwise TS is useless …