In theory, handling dates as a developer is as simple as creating, storing, and, if necessary, manipulating dates. But as a JavaScript developer, you would know this theory doesn’t hold long ...

The JavaScript Date object is notoriously hard to use, and JavaScript developers often use 3rd party libraries such as Moment.js in order to get a broader, more convenient solution for date ...

Assuming you are using client side javascript, you need to call either GET or HEAD on the file you want the date from, and than pull the date out of the response. You want something like this ...

Is there any pure JS way to get the "short date" format of a JavaScript Date object (i.e. 04/05/2005), while respecting localized differences (i.e. 04/05/2005 in the U.S. is the same as 05/04/2005 ...

But as a JavaScript developer, you would know this theory doesn't hold long after you start working with dates for real. On top of different date-time formats, you have to consider timezone and ...