the article has examples of unexpected behavior with timestamps too, so... How do you covert to your desired format without going through Date? Please don't say date-fns
> Then you can format the Date.now() number it into whatever other format you want.
The while thing is about how to transition from a date, wherever it's string or timestamp to a date object. The idea is that you'll either format it to a string, do equality checks, calculate durations etc after after. Your idea of using timestamps doesn't address anything the article was about