Suggestion for date object returned by toUTC about tz.js HOT 3 CLOSED

Can you give some more concrete examples?

from tz.js.

Sure.

My thought is that while the resulting object is somewhat unique to this library, the attributes of the object could follow Unicode date patterns used by most other libraries one would encounter when dealing with dates.

I usually use date-fns, for example, and would format a date object like this.

formatDate(new Date(), 'MM dd, YYYY');

If your library generated an object with attributes that adhered to Unicode date patterns, you could do the same thing. Example:

// fake object with a few example attributes
var obj = {
  MM: 'March',
  dd: '3',
  YYYY: '2022'
};

var formattedDate = `${obj.MM} ${obj.dd}, ${obj.YYYY}`;

Having the ability to turn a date into an object like this is much more convenient than including date-fns and I'd use such a library all the time.

I must add a disclaimer that my understanding on this topic is limited to usage in my projects, and I am well aware that you really don't know a part of the stack until you get to a point where you could write or have written that part of the stack. Thanks for reading.

from tz.js.

I don't think it's a bad idea, but I don't think it's useful enough over the current structure to warrant an API change.

{
  // date
  "year": 2021, "month": 2, "day": 14,
  // time
  "hour": 3, "minute": 15, "second": 59, "millisecond": 0,
  // tz
  "offset": -240, "timeZoneName": "Eastern Daylight Time"
}

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