Change behaviour of optional Month parameter in Date
daggy1234 opened this issue · comments
The current Date methods accept an optional parameter for month between 0 (January) and 11 (December). This is inconsistent with the Date day parameter that allows values between 1 - 31.
The code new Date(Date.UTC(2022, 2, 14, 23, 30, 0, 0)) produces the date Tue Mar 15 2022 05:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time).
I think the month parameter should be changed to start at 1 and end at 12 for the following reasons:
- Other languages like python's datetime module and ctime CTime::GetMonth also start month with 1
- Ensure Parity with the day parameter
- Generally, dates are written with 1 representing January, and it's more intuitive for a user to start with
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I understand that this is a huge, breaking change but the monthIndex in general is extremely confusing for new users and should be modified!
Hi Daggy1234.
Have a look at the Temporal proposal https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal
Also, this GitHub issues section is not the right place to discuss such changes. Please favor this forum: https://es.discourse.group/
Thanks
I understand that this is a huge, breaking change
So it's impossible to land in JavaScript. This requires millions of people to rewrite their code. And yes, this is not the correct place for proposals.
Have a look at the Temporal proposal https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal
Also, this GitHub issues section is not the right place to discuss such changes. Please favor this forum: https://es.discourse.group/