Date.fromString calls strongly discouraged Javascript code

[mariosangiorgio]

I am working on some code that uses dates. When I looked at the documentation of Date.fromString I didn't find any indication about the format used so I had a look at the source code.

I figured out it used the native Javascript Date. Reading the documentation on Mozilla's website I found this worrying note:

parsing of date strings with the Date constructor (and Date.parse, they are equivalent) is strongly discouraged due to browser differences and inconsistencies.

Has anyone looked into what these inconsistencies are?

I think we should do one of the following things:

• investigate what the inconsistencies are and document them on the module documentation. Hardly ideal, but at least users are going to be aware of possible issues
• write a pure elm parser, with a well defined accepted format
• remove the function entirely

What do you think?

[process-bot]

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[evancz]

This is a duplicate of #632, follow along there.

[evancz]

This is a duplicate of #632, follow along there.