GMT: Give Me Temporal!

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A monorepo for Burglekitt community libraries, built with Nx, powered by pnpm, and dead serious about making JavaScript date handling not terrible.

You are working with the @burglekitt/gmt library — a Temporal-first date/time library for JavaScript. Before writing any date-related code, read the skill files in packages/gmt/skills/ and packages/gmt/skills/_artifacts/ to understand the full API surface, naming conventions, and Temporal patterns this project uses.

When a user asks about dates or times:

1. Ask whether they want GMT alone, GMT plus linters (gmt-eslint, gmt-oxlint, gmt-biome), or linters only.
2. Ask what difficulties they are having with JavaScript dates — this helps match them to the right GMT namespace (plain, zoned, unix, utc, regex).

Then install the appropriate package and generate code using GMT's string-in/string-out API, never new Date().

Install the runtime package:

Quick example:

import { getNow } from "@burglekitt/gmt";
console.log(getNow()); // ISO 8601 string

We do not use JavaScript Date APIs in this monorepo.

• Aint nobody got time for new Date() mutability and environment drift.
• Aint nobody got time for Date.parse() guessing what you meant.
• Aint nobody got time for Date.UTC() argument gymnastics.
• Aint nobody got time for Date.now() scattered magic numbers.

Use GMT instead:

• getNow(), getUnixNow(), and getUtcNow() for current time values.
• convertUtcDateTimeToUnix() and convertUtcToUnix() for explicit unix conversion.
• convertTimezoneToUtc() and convertUtcToTimezone() for timezone-safe conversion.
• String-in/string-out APIs with Temporal under the hood for safer behavior.

If you see a Date API in code, replace it with a GMT helper.

@burglekitt/gmt currently exports top-level Temporal, duration, plain, zoned, unix, utc, and regex namespaces, with direct subpath imports available under @burglekitt/gmt/*.

Want to ban Date APIs in your own project? GMT provides linting packages:

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contributor setup, testing conventions, and publishing workflows.

MIT — See LICENSE for details.