`Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1970` is interpreted as falsy value and throw

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Handlebars helpers for internationalization.

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Closed caridy closed 9 years ago

caridy commented 9 years ago

> new Date('Thu Jan 01 00:00:01 UTC 1970').getTime()
1000
> new Date('Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1970').getTime()
0
>

since the value is 0, it is a falsy value and we don't have a way to differentiate it with:

> new Date(0).getTime()
0

caridy commented 9 years ago

related to https://github.com/yahoo/intl-relativeformat/issues/5 and affects react-intl, and dust-intl as well.