Return to contemplating a Date literal?

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I often wish we had a Date literal since it's so ubiquitous. Looks like it had been discussed many many years ago - perhaps we could revisit given so much time has passed: https://web.archive.org/web/20170202155307/http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=proposals:date_and_time

Adding to that, I'd be interested in a date primitive that, like a string primitive, can be turned into a full-fledged Date object when a method is called on it.

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When Temporal (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal) is shipping in engines, then there will hopefully no longer be any reason for anyone to use Date.

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Worth noting date literals aren't really much of a thing outside config file formats, data interchange formats, and (less often) query languages. And even those (ex: JSON, XML, PostgreSQL) often don't have them.

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