Temporal: A nine-year journey to fix time in JavaScript
Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript Published on 11 March 2026 Welcome to our blog! I’m Jason Williams, a senior software engineer on Bloomberg’s JavaScript Infrastructure and Terminal Experience team. Today the Bloomberg Terminal runs a lot of JavaScript. Our team provides a JavaScript environment to engineers across the company. Bloomberg may not be the first company you think of when discussing JavaScript. It certainly wasn’t for me in 2018 before I worked here. Back then, I attended my first TC39 meeting in London, only to meet some Bloomberg engineers who were there discussing Realms, WebAssembly, Class Fields, and other topics. The company has now been involved with JavaScript standardization for numerous years, including partnering with Igalia. Some of the…
