Scripting News: Testing date equality in JS

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Thursday December 27, 2018; 5:47 PM EST

Testing date equality in JS#

Today I learned that testing two dates for equality in JavaScript does not work as a reasonable person might expect. #

var d1 = new Date ("March 12, 1994");#
var d2 = new Date ("March 12, 1994");#
alert (d1 == d2);#

The answer in the alert is false.#

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