[robobun]

Merge order: see Notes (#37764, #46729).

Problem

• A failing toEqual of two Temporal values prints Expected: PlainDate {} and Received: PlainDate {}. Inside an object the diff has no changed line.
• A Temporal object keeps its value in internal slots. The Tag::Object arm of the test printer (src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs:2339) prints own properties only.
• No issue reports it (Notes).

Fix

• For a failure message, Formatter::print_as first asks SnapshotFormat__temporalText (src/jsc/bindings/SnapshotFormat.cpp). It reads the slots, and the message prints Temporal.PlainDate 2020-01-02. No toJSON or toString runs.
• Two values share the new text only if Bun.deepEquals calls them equal. A snapshot still stores PlainDate {}: bun:test: store the value of a Temporal object in a snapshot instead of PlainDate {} #48106 changes that text and waits for a decision.
• Self-reviewed: 25 concerns raised, 23 addressed. Not taken: a table test of every class, a WebKit fix for PlainDateTime.toJSON().
• Verified: test/js/bun/bun-object/deep-equals-temporal.test.ts (49 new tests, 48 fail on main). Also the TOML and printing suites.

Background

• One printer serves failure messages and snapshots in Bun's format. Only a failure message sets its field output_length, so the new branch reads it.
• The text is that of Format Temporal values in console.log, util.inspect, and test pretty-format #37043, which the stale job closed unmerged. A ZonedDateTime differs: toString() reads the time zone data of the machine. Considered toJSON(): a date and its string print alike.

Downsides

• A stored failure message (toThrowErrorMatchingSnapshot() of a failed matcher) with a Temporal value fails until bun test -u.
• toBe and toContainEqual use the console.log printer and still print about 70 lines.
• Each native object that a failing matcher prints costs +119 instructions, a ZonedDateTime +1,612. Release binary text: +6,400 bytes.

Notes

Merge order

• bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764. The new branch reads the field output_length of Formatter. bun:test: say when both values print the same, and when printing stopped, instead of an empty diff #37764 at cae2564 replaces that field with budget. Git merges the two heads with no conflict, and the merged print_as still reads self.output_length, so the merged tree does not compile. The PR that merges second needs one line first: the read becomes self.budget.is_some(). bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611 and bun:test: print a nested multi-line string, Map or Set on its key's line in failure messages #47748 read the same field.
• Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729. It moves Bun's format into src/jsc/ConsoleObject.rs and deletes Formatter::print_as. A trial merge of the two heads (070a72c and this branch) has one conflict, in pretty_format.rs. After Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 the branch is 8 lines in the hook JestPrettyFormat::print_in_bun_snapshot, under formatter.snapshot.output_length.is_some(). SnapshotFormat__temporalText, print_temporal and the tests carry over. The port is the first commit of branch robobun/c1db105e/temporal-on-46729, on 070a72c. There the 126 tests of deep-equals-temporal.test.ts pass with no expected text changed.
• bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611, bun:test: print a nested multi-line string, Map or Set on its key's line in failure messages #47748, bun:test: store the href of a URL in a snapshot instead of URL {} #48020, bun:test: store the name and message of a DOMException in a snapshot instead of DOMException {} #48033. Git merges this branch with each of the four heads with no conflict. I did not build those merges.
• A FormData subclass whose toJSON() returns a Temporal value prints the value here. After Print Bun's snapshot format with the console.log formatter #46729 it prints PlainDate {}: print_private hands that result to print_as past the hook (ConsoleObject.rs:4841). No test pins that text.
• bun:test: store the value of a Temporal object in a snapshot instead of PlainDate {} #48106. It is stacked on this PR. It changes the condition of the branch and no longer reads output_length.

Report and reach

• No user reported it. I found it by a read of the printer. Bun.TOML.parse returns Temporal values since Bun 1.4.0 (TOML: map date/time values to Temporal, round-trip them through stringify #37018), and toEqual compares them by their slots since 1.4.1 (Compare Temporal objects by value in Bun.deepEquals and toEqual #37024).
• The evidence in this repo is test/js/bun/toml/toml-test-suite.test.ts. 23 of its tests compare Temporal values with toEqual. With each expected date moved by one day or one nanosecond, the 23 tests fail. On main each of the 23 messages ends with - Expected - 0 and + Received + 0. On this branch each message shows the changed lines.
• [Jest] Diff is incomplete when using toStrictEqual to compare URL #7253 reports the same symptom for a URL. bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611 handles that class.
• A value from a Temporal polyfill is an object of a class of the polyfill. It still prints as PlainDate {}, and toEqual calls any two of them equal.

Messages that change

toEqual, toStrictEqual, toHaveProperty, toHaveBeenCalledWith, .not.toEqual, and the sample of expect.objectContaining(). For two dates in an object:

  {
-   "a": Temporal.PlainDate 2020-01-02,
+   "a": Temporal.PlainDate 2020-01-01,
  }

Text of each class

The text is the class as a script names it, a space, and the default toString() text. Four cases differ, because toString() does not follow the slots that Bun.deepEquals compares (temporalObjectsDequal, src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp:1560):

Value	toString()	Printed after the class
ZonedDateTime	2020-01-01T00:00:00-10:00[Pacific/Honolulu]	2020-01-01T10:00:00Z[Pacific/Honolulu]
Duration.from({ milliseconds: 1500 })	PT1.5S	PT1.5S (milliseconds: 1500)
new PlainYearMonth(2024, 6, "iso8601", 15)	2024-06	2024-06-15[u-ca=iso8601]
new PlainMonthDay(6, 15, "iso8601", 2000)	06-15	2000-06-15[u-ca=iso8601]

• ZonedDateTime. The local time and the offset of toString() come from the time zone data of the machine. ICU 78.3 (Bun 1.4.3) and ICU 79.1 (main) give two texts for 6 of 2,670 probed pairs of zone and instant (445 zones, 6 instants): America/Vancouver, America/Edmonton, America/Winnipeg and America/Inuvik in 2030, Africa/Casablanca and Africa/El_Aaiun in 2027. macOS links the ICU of the system (scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:265). The printed text is the instant and the zone, which is what the comparer reads. Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from() accepts it. Format Temporal values in console.log, util.inspect, and test pretty-format #37043 printed toString() here.
• Duration. toString() adds the milliseconds, microseconds and nanoseconds to the seconds. { milliseconds: 1500 } and { seconds: 1, milliseconds: 500 } are both PT1.5S, and Bun.deepEquals compares the fields. When one of the three fields is 1000 or more, the text lists those of the three that are not 0.
• PlainYearMonth, PlainMonthDay. toString() leaves out the reference day or year in the ISO calendar. Only the fourth argument of the constructor sets one that is not the default.
• PlainDateTime. The text keeps [u-ca=hebrew], as toString() does. toJSON() of the pinned JavaScriptCore drops it (TemporalPlainDateTimePrototype.cpp). That is a defect of the engine and not of this printer.
• A subclass, an own property and the prototype do not change the text. Bun.deepEquals and toStrictEqual ignore them for a Temporal value.

#37043

• Format Temporal values in console.log, util.inspect, and test pretty-format #37043 printed a Temporal value in four printers: console.log and Bun.inspect, util.inspect, the test printer, and the macro printer. Dylan Conway pushed 7 commits to it. The stale job closed it on 2026-11-07 with no review decision.
• This PR carries the part for the test printer, for failure messages. bun:test: store the value of a Temporal object in a snapshot instead of PlainDate {} #48106 carries the part for snapshots.
• Not carried: console.log and Bun.inspect (they print 15 to 50 lines of prototype members for a Temporal value), util.inspect (PlainDate [Temporal.PlainDate] {}, as Node 26.3.0 prints), and src/js_parser_jsc/Macro.rs.

Cost (main b1305dd against this branch, release builds)

• size: text 140,289,934 to 140,296,334 bytes (+6,400, all of it in .text). SnapshotFormat__temporalText is 2,651 bytes, withCalendarAnnotation 687 and print_temporal 419. The Tag::Object instantiation of print_as grows from 2,929 to 3,005 bytes (llvm-nm -S).
• User-space instructions for each matcher call: BUN_JSC_useJIT=0, concurrent GC off, perf_event_open, the difference between loops of 20,000 and 40,000 calls (100,000 and 200,000 for the snapshot rows), median of 5.

Printed value	failing toEqual, main	this PR	toMatchInlineSnapshot, main	this PR
{ a: "x", b: [1, 2], c: { d: "y" } }	36,513	36,608	25,683	25,762
new Intl.Collator()	13,753	13,872	7,034	7,042
PlainDate	13,793	13,478	7,040	7,048
Duration	13,755	14,185	7,033	7,041
ZonedDateTime	13,790	15,402	7,055	7,063

• The five runs of one row differ by up to 60 for the single values in a message, by up to 2 in a snapshot, and by up to 230 for the object literal. The difference of the literal rows is inside that spread.
• The entry of the instantiation has 7 more instructions for each printed object (llvm-objdump). The snapshot columns show them as +8. The frame stays 152 bytes.
• The call into C++ runs only in a failure message, and only for a cell of the generic object type of the engine. A plain object, an array and a class instance are not of that type. Calls of SnapshotFormat__temporalText for 100 prints (lldb hit counts, debug build): 0 for the object literal in a snapshot, 0 for new Intl.Collator() in a snapshot, 100 for the sample of expect.objectContaining() in a failing toEqual.
• malloc calls for each printed PlainDate: 3.2 on main and 4.2 with the new function. For a Duration 3.2 and 3.0, for a ZonedDateTime 3.5 and 7.2, for a PlainDate with a calendar 3.0 and 7.3. (ASAN statistics with Malloc=1, 4,000 prints, measured in a snapshot on the build of bun:test: store the value of a Temporal object in a snapshot instead of PlainDate {} #48106, which calls the same function.)
• With the branch inside the Tag::Object arm the frame is 184 bytes, and the deepest nested object that prints before the RangeError goes from 5,300 to 5,193 levels. With the branch at the entry of print_as it is 5,300 to 5,303 levels on this PR and 5,302 to 5,303 on main.
• toJSON and toString calls while the messages of the 8 classes print: 0 of 16 spies. A test pins it.

Tests

• deep-equals-temporal.test.ts: 49 new tests. 48 fail on main. The other one pins that a snapshot still stores PlainDate {}.
• 43 rows pin the exact text, with the limits: { milliseconds: 999 } and 1000, the same for microseconds and nanoseconds, negative fields, the two ends of the Instant range, a year before 0.
• One test builds 50 values, each one slot apart from the next, and checks for each pair that the two texts are equal exactly when Bun.deepEquals returns true.
• One test reads the text back with from() for every calendar of Intl.supportedValuesOf("calendar").
• Also run on the debug build: toml.test.ts (104 pass, it pins the class names in the TOML.stringify errors, which now come from TemporalType::name()), toml-test-suite.test.ts (708 pass), diffexample.test.ts (6 pass), deep-equals.test.ts (66 pass). expect.test.js (464 pass), mock-fn.test.js (848 pass), dom-nodes.test.ts (79 pass), dom-nodes-jest.test.js (140 pass), bun-snapshots.test.ts, existing-snapshots.test.ts and new-snapshot.test.ts pass.
• snapshot.test.ts with --timeout 120000: 179 pass, 1 skip, 1 fail. The one is error snapshots, which expects colour and fails on main in this container too. With the default timeout, 6 to 10 more tests of that file need more than their 5 seconds on this container's debug build, on main and on this branch alike.

Stored failure messages

Bun 1.4.3 stored three failure messages with a Temporal value: toThrowErrorMatchingSnapshot() of a failed toEqual (alone and in an object) and a snapshot of error.message. The three pass on main and fail on this branch until bun test -u. A stored message with no Temporal value passes on both.

Not changed

• What a snapshot stores: PlainDate {}. That is bun:test: store the value of a Temporal object in a snapshot instead of PlainDate {} #48106.
• The messages of toBe, toContain, toContainEqual and toHaveReturnedWith use the console.log printer. For two PlainDate values toBe prints 69 lines and toContainEqual 71.
• toMatchObject passes for two different Temporal values, as it does for two Date values. Compare Temporal objects by value in toMatchObject and Bun.deepMatch #39288 handles that comparer.
• The title of a test.each row prints through the console.log printer.
• A value with an own $$typeof of a React element prints as that element (<unknown />), whatever its class. Tag::get (pretty_format.rs:540) decides that before an arm runs. On main that holds for a Date, a Map, a Set, an Error, an array, a RegExp, a typed array and a class instance. It still holds for a Temporal value.
• Other values that keep their state in slots still print a class name alone: Headers {} and URL {} (bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611), a KeyObject, a boxed Symbol, BigInt or Number.

Self-review

25 concerns, 23 addressed. The two largest: split the failure messages from the stored snapshot text, and build the port on #46729. Not taken:

• A table test of every class that Bun.deepEquals reads natively. The other classes belong to bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611, bun:test: store the href of a URL in a snapshot instead of URL {} #48020 and bun:test: store the name and message of a DOMException in a snapshot instead of DOMException {} #48033, and a list of their gaps conflicts with each of them.
• A fix in WebKit for PlainDateTime.prototype.toJSON(). It is another repository and another defect.
• Two smaller parts: a separate issue for this defect (the two PRs are the record), and edits to the text of Compare Temporal objects by value in toMatchObject and Bun.deepMatch #39288, bun:test: print Headers entries and the href of a URL in failure messages #47611 and bun:test: store the href of a URL in a snapshot instead of URL {} #48020, which name Format Temporal values in console.log, util.inspect, and test pretty-format #37043 as the owner of the Temporal classes. A comment on Format Temporal values in console.log, util.inspect, and test pretty-format #37043 points here.

[robobun]

^{Updated 4:34 AM PT - Nov 7th, 2026}

@robobun, your commit 70fec02 is building: #138277

[robobun]

Status

Reproduced on main (b1305dd) and on Bun 1.4.3:

import { expect, test } from "bun:test";
test("dates", () => {
  expect(Temporal.PlainDate.from("2020-01-01")).toEqual(Temporal.PlainDate.from("2020-01-02"));
});

bun test prints Expected: PlainDate {} and Received: PlainDate {}. With this branch the two lines are Expected: Temporal.PlainDate 2020-01-02 and Received: Temporal.PlainDate 2020-01-01.

PR: #48105. The text that a snapshot stores is #48106.

CI (build 138277): no failure of the build is in a test of this PR, and the tests of this PR pass on the lanes that ran them. 28 test files are red on main too: 27 under test/aot/, and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. 32 more tests failed once and passed on a retry. A new run does not change the 28, so I did not start one. The diff is ready for a maintainer.

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Walkthrough

The change adds internal-slot text formatting for Temporal values in test failure output. It adds shared Temporal type names, uses those names in TOML serialization errors, and adds tests for the formatted output.

Changes

Temporal formatting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Temporal names and text generation src/jsc/JSValue.rs, src/jsc/bindings/SnapshotFormat.cpp, src/runtime/api/TOMLObject.rs	TemporalType::name provides script-visible type names. SnapshotFormat__temporalText formats recognized Temporal values from internal slots, including calendar annotations and special reference fields. TOML serialization uses the shared names in errors.
Test formatter integration src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs	The formatter tries Temporal formatting for eligible object values when it tracks output length. It uses the host call’s type and text for recognized Temporal values and continues through the existing path for unrecognized values.
Temporal formatting tests test/js/bun/bun-object/deep-equals-temporal.test.ts	Tests cover assertion failure labels, distinctions between Temporal values, from() round-tripping, method-call avoidance, nested output, and unchanged snapshots.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#37764: Changes output-budget tracking and the formatter’s return value, which are related to selecting Temporal formatting for failure messages.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Low · up to 70fec

Temporal failure messages improve, but values carrying a React element marker can still display as unknown JSX instead of their date. This is a narrow diagnostic issue suitable for bounded follow-up.

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• src/jsc/JSValue.rs
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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it introduces a user-visible output format for Temporal values in failure messages (including bespoke text for ZonedDateTime and Duration that deliberately differs from toString()), and the description names merge-order conflicts with other open printer PRs, a maintainer's look at the chosen format would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• SnapshotFormat__temporalText: asCell() only after the None check; the only throwing call (Duration::toString) is guarded by RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION and the Rust caller goes through from_js_host_call_generic; the BunString out-param is written only on success and dropped (deref'd) on the Rust side.
• output_length gate: confirmed only JestPrettyFormat::format (the failure-message path via diff_format.rs) sets it; print_snapshot and did_older_bun_print leave it None, so snapshot text is unchanged as the tests assert.
• Duration text uniqueness: with all of ms/us/ns below 1000 the folded seconds are unique per field tuple, and otherwise the appended field list disambiguates, so two values share a text only when temporalObjectsDequal agrees.
• TemporalType::name() move: the unreachable! on None is only reachable after callers (print_temporal, TOML has_toml_form/temporal_object_type) have already excluded None.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a C++ binding in src/jsc/bindings/SnapshotFormat.cpp that reads Temporal internal slots via JSC ISO8601/TemporalCore helpers, a cold early-return branch in Formatter::print_as in src/runtime/test_runner/pretty_format.rs gated on the failure-message-only output_length field, a small helper move from TOMLObject.rs to JSValue.rs, and about 250 lines of new tests in the existing deep-equals-temporal test file. It touches no security-sensitive surface; it only affects the text of bun:test failure messages. Exception handling, FFI ownership of the BunString, and the snapshot/failure-message gate all check out, and no CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed files. Deferring rather than approving because the printed format is a user-facing design choice (UTC instant plus zone for ZonedDateTime, a field-list suffix for Duration) that a maintainer should endorse, the JSC Temporal headers are not available in this checkout to verify the helper signatures beyond what compilation would catch, and the author documents merge conflicts with #37764 and #46729 that need coordination.