Thoughts on Software Engineering

MomentJs is a helper javascript library that can be used to parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates. I was happily using it in a manner that I thought was appropriate without thinking too much about it until a few days ago, when I realized that the dates displayed in Internet Explorer was different than the date in Chrome! I checked the database and realized that date displayed in Internet Explorer was correct but the date was not in Chrome. The following is a code snippet of how I am using it (in the wrong way). jsfiddle is a great way to test out the following code in both IE and Chrome. Use the following momentjs script: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.6.0/moment.min.js. console.log(moment(new Date('2001-09-08T00:00:00')).format("MM/DD/YYYY")); The date displayed in IE would be correct - 09/08/2001. The date displayed in Chrome would be wrong - 09/07/2001. It turns out you have to give MomentJs some context when trying to use it to ...