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Mary Writes
Mar 11, 2026 · 1 min read
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have been writing about Temporal for five years and it's finally approved as an official standard in JavaScript, so I took a moment to look back at the highs and lows, the thrills and spills and why it took so long to replace what I will never get tired of calling "our broken Date object"

  • JavaScript
  • ECMAScript
  • Temporal
  • Standards
  • TC39
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This thread was the perfect way to add five years of articles about the development of JavaScript standards to my Leaflet - although I need to do another one to cover the pieces I've written about Module Harmony where I resisted mentioning Temporal!

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