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Gary D
Gary D

Reputation: 153

Javascript String to Date works in Chrome, not FF or Safari

I have an element that shows a date string in this format: <div> ListDate: 2014-11-22 00:00:00.0 </div> I have a variable that captures that text, now I am stripping out all but the date string and trying to convert it to a date so I can do some math on it. My code works fine in Chrome, but always returns NaN in FF and Safari. Here is the javascript:

var listDate = " ListDate: 2014-11-22 00:00:00.0 ";
listDate = listDate.replace('ListDate:', '');
listDate = $.trim(listDate);
listDate = Date.parse(listDate);

I'm watching it in Firebug, and it performs as expected up until Date.parse(). I tried the solutions shown on this thread, but still no luck. Any ideas? I don't have control over the html, it comes from a web service.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 110

Answers (1)

scunliffe
scunliffe

Reputation: 63588

The full ISO8601 format (IIRC) is expecting a capital letter "T" in between the date and time portions of that string, e.g. ""2014-11-22T00:00:00.0"" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 (I'd therefore recommend always adding the T delimiter.

E.g. the following code will parse to NaN in some browsers:

var myAlmostISODate = "2014-11-22 00:00:00.0";
console.log("Date: " + Date.parse(myAlmostISODate));
//IE11: NaN
//Firefox: 1416632400000
//Chrome: 1416632400000

Upvotes: 1

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