date-fns VS moment-timezone

Thanks! I used date-fns for the calendar

I've used this before and I like it more

The default date constructor does a really great job at parsing in most cases and things like addition/subtraction along with many other common operations are usually just simple math. If you really want to abstract that use date-fns where most date operations are tree shakable to be left with just a few lines of code.

date-fns and mitt (event emitter) are also frequent helpers, but I'm considering dayjs and nanoevents for these cases.

We all know the pain of working with dates in Javascript. It needs to be more explicit, has almost no method, and could not be more clunky. For example, to create the Date January 1, 2023, you have to write a new Date (2023, 0, 1), which can be confusing for beginners, and overall just not that clear. And because of these reasons, the community has made many libraries that attempt to make Date easier to work with over the past years. Like momentjs or Date-fns. But the good news is that you won't need these third-party libraries any longer. The Temporal Date API in Javascript attempts to completely replace the Date object and fix all of the issues we generally face when working with dates.

Next we're going to install any additional dependencies we need. In our case, we're just going to need date-fns which is a library that makes it trivial to work with datetimes in JavaScript.

Obligatory plug for date-fns. https://date-fns.org/

4. Date-fns

After that we use the feed library to create the feed and to convert our posts into RSS items. First we have to install the library and install date-fns as well. We need date-fns later to simplify working with dates.

It was actually much easier to make than I thought it would be, thanks to Moment.

Otherwise... https://momentjs.com/timezone/

The clock is in Javascript. Time zones in JavaScript historically are non-trivial since everything is based on the client clocktime. Fortunately, there is moment.js and moment-timezone-with-data.js that vastly simplify getting the current time at the NYSE. The clock keeps ticking correctly irregardless of which tab is active. I find the clock to be also functional since the WSBoy is worn over where I would usually be wearing my watch.