date-parse-utc-safe

date-parse-utc-safe is a skill for Claude Code from randommonicle/claude-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (325 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A safe way to parse date-only strings such as 2025-03-08 in JavaScript applications running on UTC servers or serverless platforms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it wherever a date-only value is turned into a displayed date or weekday, so the intended local day is preserved.
Why use it?
JavaScript can treat such strings as UTC midnight and display the previous calendar day in western time zones.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ash plugin — 43 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it wherever a date-only value is turned into a displayed date or weekday, so the intended local day is preserved.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/randommonicle/claude-skills/date-parse-utc-safe
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add randommonicle/claude-skills --skill date-parse-utc-safe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/randommonicle/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ash, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 3 hooks.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 325 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00099 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00032

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3d42813f8409, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

date-parse-utc-safe scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

date-parse-utc-safe/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Date parsing, UTC-safe

One rule, endlessly rediscovered: new Date("YYYY-MM-DD") parses as UTC midnight. In a UTC runtime (serverless platforms run UTC) rendered through a western timezone, that is the previous day — bookings display on the wrong date, day-of-week computes wrong, and the bug never reproduces on a developer machine in the same timezone as the users.

The rule

Never construct a Date from a bare YYYY-MM-DD string for display or day-of-week. Decompose to explicit local components:

const [y, m, d] = dateStr.split('-').map(Number);
const date = new Date(y, m - 1, d); // local midnight, not UTC midnight

Test the boundary: a date rendered at local midnight in the runtime's timezone is where the off-by-one appears.

Why

The failure only exists in the deployed runtime's timezone, so it survives local testing by construction. Evidence: ICC LESSONS_LEARNED L-005.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 30 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 3d42813f8409

Subscribe to this mod's changes

date-parse-utc-safe is a skill published in the GitHub repository randommonicle/claude-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 325 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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