This tutorial will introduce you to working with dates in vanilla JavaScript, as well as useful third-party libraries to help you simplify more complex date-related tasks.

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The Date object in JavaScript is the main element when it comes to handling date and time. It records a single point in time as the milliseconds’ number elapsed since the 1st January 1970 00:00: ...