Sam RoseI made a quiz about the JS Date parser. It's very easy and you will score very high.
sarah tonin@samwho i make parsers and i have to wonder just what in the FUCK is going on in this one
the grammar sounds like it's even more nightmarish than that of c somehow
Jesse 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 
@SRAZKVT @samwho answer: JavaScript's Date API is ancient and modeled after another equally shitty Java API
all those quirky parsing behaviors are relics from the pre-standardization days of JS, back when every engine did whatever it wanted, and for backwards compat reason they had to keep it that way
feed it ISO 8601 and it will behave perfectly fine (or use the brand new Temporal API, but that's only available in Firefox rn)
If it matters, I'm a professional JavaScript/TypeScript developer specialized in JS, so I'm not talking out of my ass here, though this is pretty well-known (it's mentioned on the MDN article on the Temporal API)
all those quirky parsing behaviors are relics from the pre-standardization days of JS, back when every engine did whatever it wanted, and for backwards compat reason they had to keep it that way
feed it ISO 8601 and it will behave perfectly fine (or use the brand new Temporal API, but that's only available in Firefox rn)
If it matters, I'm a professional JavaScript/TypeScript developer specialized in JS, so I'm not talking out of my ass here, though this is pretty well-known (it's mentioned on the MDN article on the Temporal API)
@SRAZKVT @samwho yeah netscape was pretty big, there were other vendors though
also it doesn't help that back then JS was designed as a small shitty scripting language, it wasn't the full-fledged programming language it was today, so they cut a few corners
also Java was really hype back then so they wanted to copy it for the same reason that everything has AI now (money by association with the hype thing)
also it doesn't help that back then JS was designed as a small shitty scripting language, it wasn't the full-fledged programming language it was today, so they cut a few corners
also Java was really hype back then so they wanted to copy it for the same reason that everything has AI now (money by association with the hype thing)