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user007
user007

Reputation: 1730

new Date('2011-12-15 00:00:00') is showing up as NaN

The code: new Date('2011-12-15 00:00:00') is showing as NaN.
How can I convert this date? Any helps are appreciated.

My code is very straight forward. It works in Chrome but not in IE 9. 

var dateText = new Date('2012-08-01 00:00:00'); 
alert(dateText.getDate().toString() + "/" + dateText.getMonth().toString() + "/" + dateText.getYear().toString());

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3455

Answers (3)

i.AsifNoor
i.AsifNoor

Reputation: 587

The easy solution I tried Download date.js from http://datejs.com/ Include in your file then var date = Date.parse('1970-01-12 00:00:00'); var formattedDate = date.toString('yyyy-MM-dd');

It works like charm in Safari.

Upvotes: 0

user007
user007

Reputation: 1730

After some search in web, realized that the stupid IE does not understand this date format. I do not know about Safari and Firefox, but certainly this works in Chrome.

Either I will have to use some javascript libraries like DateJS for doing this or will have to do some custom coding as below which I will never recommend. Fortunately in my case, I am sure that I will be getting the dates in the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS format.

var dateText = '2011-12-15 00:00:00';
alert(dateText.substring(5, 7) + "/" + dateText.substring(8, 10) + "/" + dateText.substring(0, 4));

Upvotes: 0

suff trek
suff trek

Reputation: 39777

Add "T" to the date format. e.g:

new Date('2011-12-15T00:00:00')

Upvotes: 6

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