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RobKohr
RobKohr

Reputation: 6953

Weirdness with dates in Javascript

I am storing date objects in mongodb. When I fetch them out, I get something like this:

"2016-10-18T10:53:31.851Z"

When I take that string and put it into a date function I get this:

Date("2016-10-18T10:53:31.851Z")
"Fri Nov 18 2016 14:15:44 GMT-0500 (EST)"

Note that the minutes and the seconds, and even the month looks incorrect. The hour looks like it is off by one. Why is that?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 74

Answers (1)

retrospectacus
retrospectacus

Reputation: 2586

invoking Date in the way you are doing produces the current date and time. To create a variable based on that string, use

new Date("2016-10-18T10:53:31.851Z")
Tue Oct 18 2016 03:53:31 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Upvotes: 8

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