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>For JavaScript, there is excellent js-joda library

Well that was kind of my point- needing an external library to manage datetime is ludicrous. That's why I'm talking about what C# has builtin. No matter what new project you start, whoevers code you are working in- you can just use builtin.

>give NodaTime a try. Standard DateTime is barely usable, compared to it.

Went to the website to see some example code.. looks basically the same? Anyway thanks for the heads up but I work with datetime stuff constantly and I am not missing anything. It's easy to create datetimes, convert between time zones, add timespans etc.



> Went to the website to see some example code.. looks basically the same?

The main difference is that there are separate types for the following concepts:

1) A point in time in global timeline

2) A specific date and time in specific time zone

3) Specific date and time but without any information about time zone (and two more related types that contain only date information or only time information).

There are a few more types, but these illustrate the main difference from .NET DateTime. In case you missed it, the basic concepts are explained here: https://nodatime.org/3.0.x/userguide/concepts (which I should have linked to in the first place).

This blog post by Jon Skeet explains the troubles with DateTime: https://blog.nodatime.org/2011/08/what-wrong-with-datetime-a... (he's also one of the authors of NodaTime).




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