Temporal in ECMA262

Category: JavaScript
Type: New or changed feature
Status: In development (Chrome In development)
Intent stage: Start incubating

Summary

Temporal API https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal in ECMA262 is a new API that provides standard objects and functions for working with dates and times. Date has been a long-standing pain point in ECMAScript. This proposes Temporal, a global Object that acts as a top-level namespace (like Math), that brings a modern date/time API to the ECMAScript language. Full documentation can be found here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal

Motivation

Date has been a long-standing pain point in ECMAScript. This proposes Temporal, a global Object that acts as a top-level namespace (like Math), that brings a modern date/time API to the ECMAScript language. For a detailed breakdown of motivations, see: Fixing JavaScript Date https://maggiepint.com/2017/04/09/fixing-javascript-date-getting-started/

Standards & signals

Specification: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping — https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/498
Safari: In development — Safari's implementation is a very old version of the spec, and is very partial.
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=11544

Explainers: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/ https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/

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