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JavaScript's days are numbered (dormi.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs#Year_275,760

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[–] Redkey 8 points 1 year ago

The definition of the Date object explicitly states that any attempt to set the internal timestamp to a value outside of the maximum range must result in it being set to "NaN". If there's an implementation out there that doesn't do that, then the issue is with that implementation, not the standard.