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+title:  "Shipping Temporal"
+date:   2025-04-18 12:00:00 -0600
+author: Daniel Minor
+---
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+The [Temporal proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal) provides a
+replacement for `Date`, a long standing pain-point in the JavaScript language.
+This [blog post](https://maggiepint.com/2017/04/09/fixing-javascript-date-getting-started/)
+describes some of the history and motivation behind the proposal. The
+Temporal API itself is well docmented on
+[MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Temporal).
+
+Temporal reached Stage 3 of the [TC39 process](https://tc39.es/process-document/) in March 2021.
+Reaching Stage 3 means that the specification is considered complete, and that the proposal is
+ready for implementation.
+
+SpiderMonkey began our implementation that same month, with the initial work
+tracked in [Bug 1519167](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519167).
+Incredibly, our implementation was not developed by Mozilla employees, but was contributed
+entirely by a single volunteer, André Bargull. That initial bug consisted of 99 patches, but
+the work did not stop there, as the specification continued to evolve as problems were found
+during implementation. Beyond contributing to SpiderMonkey, André filed close to
+[200 issues](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-temporal/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20author%3Aanba)
+against the specification. [Bug 1840374](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1840374)
+is just one example of the massive amount of work required to keep up to date with the
+specification.
+
+As of Firefox 139, we've enabled our Temporal implementation by default, making
+us the first browser to ship it. Sometimes it can seem like the ideas
+of open source, community, and volunteer contributors are a thing of the past,
+but the example of Temporal shows that volunteers can still have a meaningful impact
+both on Firefox and on the JavaScript language as a whole.
+
+## Interested in contributing?
+
+Not every proposal is as large as Temporal, and we welcome contributions of
+all shapes and sizes. If you're interested in contributing to SpiderMonkey,
+please have a look at our
+[mentored bugs](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&emailbug_mentor2=1&emailtype2=regexp&resolution=---&email2=.*&component=JavaScript%20Engine&component=JavaScript%20Engine%3A%20JIT&component=JavaScript%3A%20GC&component=JavaScript%3A%20Internationalization%20API&component=JavaScript%3A%20Standard%20Library&list_id=17451567&classification=Client%20Software&classification=Developer%20Infrastructure&classification=Components&classification=Server%20Software&classification=Other&product=Core).
+You don't have to be an expert :). If your interests are more on the specification side,
+you can also check out how to
+[contribute to TC39](https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+