Just a general cleanup of the `Date` builtin to use slightly better patterns and to fix our warnings about deprecated functions.
About the regressed tests. It seems to be a `chrono` bug, so I opened up an issue (https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/884) for it and they've already opened a PR fixing it (https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/pull/885).
However, while checking out the remaining failing tests, I realized there's a more fundamental limitation with the library. Currently, [`chrono`](https://github.com/chronotope/chrono) specifies:
> Date types are limited in about +/- 262,000 years from the common epoch.
While the [ECMAScript spec](https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-time-values-and-time-range) says:
> The smaller range supported by a time value as specified in this section is approximately -273,790 to 273,790 years relative to 1970.
The range allowed by the spec is barely outside of the range supported by `chrono`! This is why the remaining `Date` tests fail.
Seeing that, I would like to ping @djc and @esheppa (the maintainers of `chrono`) to ask if it would be feasible to add a feature, akin to the `large-dates` feature from the `time` crate, that expands the supported range of `chrono`.
EDIT: Filed https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/886
José Julián Espina
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