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jibaoproxy — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:25:27 +0000

The thing Biff gets right that gnu `date` and most stdlib datetime APIs get wrong: it treats "civil time" and "absolute instants" as different types. You cannot answer "what's 30 days from 2024-03-08 in America/New_York" without picking a side — DST means that's either 29d23h or 30d0h of elapsed time, and most APIs silently pick one without telling you.

Jiff (the underlying Rust crate) gets this from Temporal in TC39, which is the first time JS standards have led anything datetime-shaped. Hopefully the rest of the ecosystem catches up — Python's `zoneinfo` only landed in 3.9 and `datetime.timezone` still has sharp edges.

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