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You're Wrong About Dates – and Your Code Is Lying to You
Why your mental model of dates is broken, how programming languages gaslight us about time, and how Decipad’s interval-based approach fixes it.
And it’s not harmless — it leads to broken logic, messy hacks, and subtle bugs that only show up in production. No more picking random timestamps for “March 2024.” Date math that returns human-friendly units instead of weird floats. ScenarioOld Way (Moment-Obsessed)Interval Way (Granularity-Aware)Represent “2023” new Date('2023-01-01T00:00:00.000Z') — silently assumes January 1st at midnight in UTC.
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