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Phillip Senn
Phillip Senn

Reputation: 47595

Parsing ISO8601-like date in JavaScript: new Date() doesn't work across browsers

How do I convert a date string coming from a database into a new Date() object?

If I do the following:

var x = new Date('2013-11-05 11:01:46:0');
alert(x);

It works in Chrome, but in Safari it gives me the string "Invalid Date". Here's the fiddle.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 214

Answers (1)

Mark Reed
Mark Reed

Reputation: 95242

The format of strings accepted by new Date(string) is implementation-dependent. If the browser correctly implements the ES5 specification, however, a strict subset of legal ISO 8601 strings should be accepted. Basically, you need to use UTC instead of local time, put a "T" instead of a space between the date and time, use a decimal point instead of a colon between integral and fractional seconds, and append a "Z" on the end of the whole thing:

2013-11-05T11:01:46.000Z

Perhaps you can get your database to output the dates in that format; otherwise, you should look into a third-party library, such as moment.js.

Upvotes: 4

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