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Incredible work as always… but the mounting Dateschmerz meant that I couldn’t bring myself to finish it

Wow. Thanks for doing this!

The parser is already horrendous. Then you tricked out these questions more than the kid in Home Alone. 8/28 - and the pain with JS dates continues.

[as I cry at my computer]

You definitely nailed it! I laughed loudly after each question!

You're a mean one, Mr Rose

thanks I hate it

> Except for some reason "2" is interpreted as a month, and the year is set to 2001. Diabolical.

9/28

What is this insanity!

Wow that was painful

There must be a story behind this, i can't accept that this is all for no reason.

I feel like there must be a hilarious story behind how all these rules came to be. Hilarious except for ruining an entire JS global that is...

Incredibly cursed, well done

16/28 - I will be expecting a mug by carrier pigeon post haste. Just also have to add: ”12.1” explanation made my brain melt, and my day. Bravo sir, bravo.

Nice work 👏 Can't wait for the same quiz on the Temporal API ;)

I scored 16/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Sure is! Glad you liked it :)

And that is why temporal need to be a thing that ships.

I want to see an episode of @syntax.fm where @tolin.ski, @wesbos.com, and @w3cj.com battle for the highest score 👀

Gave up after 7 questions.

@samwho.dev And this is why whenst uses Temporal, yeah… (also, I’see a typo)

Man, I got 15/28 at 1 AM and I feel devastated and mentally violated... I thought I knew quite some things about Date but turns out I knew little of this level of fuckery.

Mostly I think I got lucky haha. Some I feel like I was able to choose by process of elimination?

4 / 28 "You would have scored higher by guessing at random." I think my strategy for JavaScript going forward is to 'drop & run'.

I would like to get off this ride

I scored 16/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

In case you haven't seen it, there's now a Python f-string one inspired by yours. bsky.app/profile/trey...

I'm not very far through this and I'm starting to feel itchy

Haha yeah can't come soon enough and we can put Date in the bin for good. Do you know the status of DateTimeFormat with Temporal?

You can, yeah. It’s why I put the disclaimer at the start.

I think Iknow how you feel. Back when the term pandemic meant a boardgame, I found out the behavior of splice and tried to figure it out 😂 naugtur.pl/writes/artic...

Garbage in, error out. Don't assume. Just fucking error.

This has caused me immense emotional trauma and has left me scarred for life. Well done.

lol Brendan Eich just replied over on the other site

if it was a browser api (like the DOMrect stuff) then servo would need to implement it but they just use pure spidermonkey for core language not sure abt ladybird tho...

I would say that I'm glad to see my HN submission paid off, but I feel burdened by the knowledge I picked up while reading the comments.

This joke has no clear origin, but it definitely predates Monkey Island (whatever that is).

Ah no, not a lefty! It’s a mix of mostly unintentional palm muting (because I’m really rusty, as are my strings) and a really buzzy guitar that I need get set up properly, hehe

I am no stranger to the warm embrace of the void.

I scored 10/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

Thanks, I hate it.

🙇‍♂️

12/28 and honestly? I'm kinda proud. Half of that was pure luck though

I got 9/28 and said "for fucks sake" out loud at least 5 times, great job, Date.parse("10/10")

13 and haven’t used js in years. I’ll take it

‘Except when it isn’t’ is the answer for dates on most systems

Could be worse, you could be in .NET where DateTimeKind may or may not be set for horrible to find bugs. Or you could be in Java *shudders*

Like a lot.

This was fun, infuriating, and informative!

I proudly submit to you the lowest score yet. Thank you, thank you.

half way through and it very much feels like the open the refrigerator door, take the elephant out, put the giraffe in logic

I think I can feel my brain leaking out my ears a little bit.

I scored 11/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

I got 15/28. Thank you for making this. I hate it immensely. The selection and ordering of questions was exquisitely infuriating. Well done!

This just set back arguments for JavaScript being a good language decades.

I wrote the date/time formatter for YUI (basically strftime in JavaScript with locale support) and this is the reason I never implemented parsing.

I got 13. Very tricky!

Agreed, I’ll change it.

I just got demolished with a 8/28...

This is way better than the infamous wat talk

This is really good.

Pedantry: you made a quiz about _V8_'s Date parser. Almost none of this is required by spec (although it is allowed), and several of these behave differently in other browsers. Which is even worse!