Resolve date discrepancy and remove tinytime dependency

[brandonmcconnell]

👋🏼 NOTE: I am reopening this as a follow-up to #1811. I closed that one thinking that I might need to install another dependency to polyfill Intl.DateTimeFormat for server use, but that does not appear to be the case.

I'm unable to inspect the failures that caused the previous PR's build to fail, as I am not part of the tailwindlabs org on Vercel and do not have access to the tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-com resource.

If you report the failures here, I can take a stab at resolving them.

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This PR will…

1. resolve a date mismatch issue caused by tinytime not preserving timezone information

   I noticed this when sharing the job app links on Twitter. I'm not sure if this occurs in every time zone, or if I'm only seeing it because I'm currently traveling in Los Angeles.

   

2. refactor and improve the formatDate function

   1. refactor and improve the formatDate function to build upon built-in APIs

      Most of what tinytime was being used for can be offloaded to Intl.DateTimeFormat, which is natively supported with great browser support.

      The only regression/difference I noticed was that in the case of the job applications usage of formatDate, you lose the ordinal day number (e.g. 4 now instead of 4th). If that's an important difference and you really want the ordinal number there, I have a helper that essentially shims 'ordinal support for the day number. It would just be a deviation from the built-in Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions type, so if you do any TS type checking, you'll want to account for that as well.

   2. removes the—now unused—the tinytime dependency

[brandonmcconnell]

To clarify—as I didn't mention this before—I ran the build process locally, and everything built without any errors, and I can see the solution correctly rendering when running my fork locally:

[adamwathan]

Thanks man! Here's a slice of the build errors, looks like this error is happening for most if not all blog posts:

[thecrypticace]

@adamwathan The shortGeneric error is because our Vercel build is still using Node 16 which we should change to be at least Node 18.

[adamwathan]

Switched to Node 20 and triggered a redeploy, cross your fingers! 😄

[adamwathan]

I think need to drop these in order to match the behavior of the live site:

[brandonmcconnell]

Ah yup! I updated those last and must've copied the wrong object. Updating that now.

[brandonmcconnell]

Should be resolved now via 42d3fde

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[adamwathan]

Awesome thanks @brandonmcconnell!