Parallels: Date and Date Range Transformer (Now with Video Demos! 🎉)

[keith]

Welp, I was meaning to record some documentation videos or Parallels today, but (1) as I was doing so, I got motivated to add a bunch of new features that make life cooler and easier and (2) OF COURSE, I ran into a very basic Bubble bug (relating to formatting dates), which sent me down an (unnecessary) debugging rabbit hole.

Anyway, here’s an interesting bug in Bubble:

Bubble Date Formatting Incorrect/Unexpected on Time Change Dates (They are, in fact, just incorrect, but I'm being "kind".)

So, I’m working on my new “Parallels” plugin (which is all about dates and times and timezones and such) and I was working on new functionality today and attempting to record some video demos when I (shocker) ran into a Bubble bug. The bug in question relates to incorrect formatting of dates (using standard Bubble expressions on time change days). I’ll file a full but report on this, but I’m not going to make a de minimus example of this as it’s very simple to reproduce, if you suffer through t…

I swear we’ll have some instructional videos about Parallels soon! (In the meantime, keep watching the plugins tab as I’m constantly adding new stuff still.)

-K-