[taylorlunt]

Elixir handles all of this pretty well, for example differentiating between Date, Time, NaiveDateTime (a date and time), and DateTime (a date and time in a particular timezone). The Timex library is a great improvement too.

JS has libraries that make the problem easier too. Though you'll never find a magic library that makes all the complexity disappear, because at the end of the day, you do need to tell the computer whether you mean 7 pm on the wall clock of where the users happen to be, 7 pm on a specific date in a specific time zone, etc. and doing math between dates is inherently complex with e.g. daylight savings changes. You might end up creating a datetime that doesn't exist (which Elixir handles well).