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NEVER WRITE YOUR OWN DATE PARSING LIBRARY

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The creator of Eleventy started replacing the Luxon date parsing library due to its large size. He explored alternatives like dayjs but found them inaccurate, leading him to create a new RFC 9557-compatible library called `@11ty/parse-date-strings`. This new library offers a smaller bundle size and prepares Eleventy for future native Temporal API support.