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Brent Nicolet
Brent Nicolet

Reputation: 345

Date problems in Firefox & IE

I am still fairly new with Javascript but I having a problem with dates. My code below works great in Chrome, Safari, and Opera but in Firefox & IE, shows "invalid date." I'm not sure why they aren't working when it works in the other browsers. Any help would be appreciated. Here is my code:

// Perl variable brings in the enrollment date
var enrollDate = new Date(user.joinDate); 
var currentDate = new Date();
var expirationDate = new Date(enrollDate);
expirationDate.setDate(enrollDate.getDate()+7);

$('.hide-mailingAddress').addClass('hidden');
  if (currentDate <= expirationDate) {
  $('.show-mailingAddress').removeClass('hidden');
              }

console.log("Join Date: " + enrollDate);
console.log("Current Date: " + currentDate);
console.log("Expiration Date: " + expirationDate);

Here is what Chrome, Safari, Opera outputs:

Join Date: Mon Dec 08 2014 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (MST)
Current Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 09:54:27 GMT-0700 (MST)
Expiration Date: Mon Dec 15 2014 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (MST)

Firefox & IE Outputs:

Join Date: Invalid Date
Current Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 09:49:41 GMT-0700 (MST)
Expiration Date: Invalid Date

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (2)

Joseph Patterson
Joseph Patterson

Reputation: 1

I suspect that user.joinDate is a quoted string:

Such as: ' "Mon Dec 08 2014 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (MST)" '

This extra set of quotes fails in Internet Explorer but is parsed fine by Chrome.

new Date('"Mon Dec 08 2014 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (MST)"')

Upvotes: 0

Linesofcode
Linesofcode

Reputation: 5903

Yes. In some versions of IE new date() doesn't return as expected. You may want to use:

var currentDate = new Date();
var finalDate   = currentDate.getFullYear() + "/" + (currentDate.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + currentDate.getDate();

Btw, currentDate.getMonth() + 1 is because it starts on 0

Upvotes: 2

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