[masklinn]

> Given that most of the translations needed to render human dates can be found in the CLDR database, maintaining their own looks like a bit of a wasted effort.

You still need to parse the CLDR (the formats are pretty wonky) and provide APIs for its functions. Of course that's what Babel (http://babel.pocoo.org) does.

[thrownblown]

and here I thought babel was for es2015