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How did JS `getYear` turn out this badly?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getYear
and day is `getDate`? Yeesh
not one part of this works as expected
```javascript
date.getDay() + "/" + date.getMonth() + "/" + date.getYear()
```
@joelanman ahhhhhh
Thank f it's replaced. Still sad getYear will probably never be retired/updated to maintain backwards compatibility...
@joelanman I occasionally ask my colleagues when JavaScript is going to be ready for production because of things like this, and for the fact that it relied (until recently) on separate libraries for left and right padding! And, as far as I can tell, arbitrarily formatting dates?
They do too much web front-end to rewrite it all in Python, though 
@joelanman gets me every time! 
️ @joelanman For what you're trying to do, there are better approaches, FWIW. The `Intl.DateTimeFormat` API would probably handle that much more smoothly (dates a fucking disaster in JS).
```
// Get a short localized date
// returns "8/15/24"
let shortDateStr = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', {
dateStyle: 'short'
}).format(new Date());
```
@cferdinandi yeh thanks I know it! Just amazing how bad the normal date api is
@joelanman been holding my breath on the Temporal API for ages
@joelanman Without looking, if it doesn't return 2024 I'm going to be very upset
*Checks*
Oh dear god.