Support Dates

[dannyfritz]

When Arg.stringify comes across a Date object it falls on its face: http://jsfiddle.net/JVECJ/

https://github.com/stretchr/arg.js/blob/master/src/arg.js#L127 needs to additionally have an instanceof check for Date.

[dannyfritz]

Updated to 1.1 and it seems to be good now. Oops!

[matryer]

Hmm - I'm not sure what v1.1. did to address that to be honest. I wonder if you could write a test for it?

[dannyfritz]

I was mistaken when I closed it out. I can write a test and fix later today.

[dannyfritz]

make that tomorrow afternoon.

[dannyfritz]

It seems like JavaScript doesn't have any good cross-browser method of parsing an ISO date string.
Seems creating a dependency on a library or a shim on the date object is the best solution, but not very good.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5802461/javascript-which-browsers-support-parsing-of-iso-8601-date-string-with-date-par
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4829569/help-parsing-iso-8601-date-in-javascript

[matryer]

What about some kind of plugin system that gives handlers a chance to try to deal with the value before it's returned.

Then we can have other features that people can include if need be.

Or we could recommend using unix time and handle those explicitly?

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On 9 Oct 2013, at 18:58, Danny Fritz notifications@github.com wrote:

It seems like JavaScript doesn't have any good cross-browser method of parsing an ISO date string.
Seems creating a dependency on a library or a shim on the date object is the best solution, but not very good.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5802461/javascript-which-browsers-support-parsing-of-iso-8601-date-string-with-date-par
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4829569/help-parsing-iso-8601-date-in-javascript

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[dannyfritz]

I had considered UNIX time, but it is hard to discern between a number and UNIX time. It would require user intervention after parsing to get Date objects.