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  • Supporting RTL language layout in your web application
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2025
    You can also choose to use a library like date-fns to handle date and time localization.
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    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2025
    These issues can also occur in date-time libraries such as moment.js, date-fns, Day.js, and luxon.
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  • Release Radar · September 2024: Major updates from the open source community
    4 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2024
    JavaScript seems to be the flavour of the month, and here's another JavaScript project for you. date-fns provides the most comprehensive and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js. The latest version comes ten years after the very first release. There are no breaking changes in the release, and it comes with added time zone support, meaning you can select which time zone to make calculations in. There are some changes to functional arguments and a few fixes. Read up on all the changes in the release notes.
  • Date-fns: Modern JavaScript date utility library
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  • How to parse and format a date in JavaScript
    4 projects | dev.to | 8 May 2024
    Date-fns (33.3k ⭐) — A library that offers great documentation, functional architecture, and utilities that handle almost any task you can think of. It has a modular design that allows you to import only the functions you need.
  • Handling dates in JavaScript with Tempo
    4 projects | dev.to | 7 May 2024
    date-fns is a JavaScript date-handling library written in TypeScript. It was first released in 2014. date-fns works in both the browser and Node.js. It also supports working with TypeScript and Flow (the JavaScript typechecker). date-fns is very popular, with 33.4K stars on GitHub and 20.5M npm weekly downloads, at the time of writing.
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