[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #38342: Quick Draft: Leverage REST API endpoints

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#38342: Quick Draft: Leverage REST API endpoints
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 Reporter:  adamsilverstein       |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  Administration        |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch REST-API  |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by aduth):

 Latest patch resolves outstanding IE8 issues, particularly around parsing
 dates.

 Implementing these changes highlighted another recurring pain encountered
 throughout the process, which is that the `_gmt` date fields from the REST
 API are not reliable. This issue is not specific to the REST API, as the
 fields themselves are only set to the database for a post in particular
 circumstances (ticket:5698#comment:14). If a post is created via the REST
 API without a date explicitly set, both `date_gmt` and `modified_gmt` will
 be null (`0000-00-00 00:00:00` in the database). This inconsistency forces
 us to use `date` instead, which is offset by the site's timezone setting.
 Working with dates -- particularly those with timezone offsets -- in
 JavaScript, is very difficult and error-prone. A library like
 [http://momentjs.com/ Moment.js] is almost essential if this is to become
 more common. Otherwise, it would be nice if we could be guaranteed that
 the REST API would return valid `_gmt` dates in all cases.

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