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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.


> 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/YearMont... / https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#date-objects / https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...


Java date/time handling is plain beautiful. I'm glad other languages like js started adopting the same approach.




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