I don't like it. Duration is just milliseconds for me. On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 18:47 Alexandre Morgaut <alexandre.morg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here a proposal to make ECMAScript natively support a Duration Object > > I talked about it a long time ago (2011) on the WHATWG mailing list in the > context of the Timers API: > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2011Feb/0533.htm > > l think that such a proposal would better take place in the core of the > language and having worked on a framework date time APIs I tried to give > this approach a better look. > > ECMAScript natively support Dates since its very first version > It started to support the ISO 8601 string format in edition 5 > (15.9.1.15 Date Time String Format ) > > Durations like Dates can be very tricky, especially with I18n in mind, but > the ECMA standard already had to be handled most of the Duration tricky > part for the Date Object in EMCA 262 & ECMA 402. > > Duration, sometimes called TimeInterval, is a common concept supported by > most languages or associated standard libs. > > In very short, Duration object would: > - support the ISO syntax in its contructor: new Duration('P6W') // for > Period 6 Weeks > - allow to handle Date diff operations > - allow to be interpreted by setTimeout() & setInterval() > > Please find below a draft exposing the concept > I'd be very happy if someone from TC39 would be interested to champion it > https://github.com/AMorgaut/proposal-Duration > > Regards, > > Alexandre. > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >
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