AngularJS/javascript converting a date String to date object

Question

Im stuck on a problem and would appreciate any help. I have read through lot of the discussions already but they dont seem to work for me.

//I have a date as a string which I want to get to a date format of dd/MM/yyyy var collectionDate = '2002-04-26T09:00:00';   //used angularjs date filter to format the date to dd/MM/yyyy collectionDate = $filter('date')(collectionDate, 'dd/MM/yyyy'); //This outputs 26/04/2002 as a string 

How do I convert it to a date object? The reason I want to do this is because I want to use it in a google charts directive where one of the columns has to be a date. I do not want to have the column type as string:

eg:

var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();                     data.addColumn('date', 'Dates');                     data.addColumn('number', 'Upper Normal');                     data.addColumn('number', 'Result');                     data.addColumn('number', 'Lower Normal');                     data.addRows(scope.rows);................. 

Answer 1

try this

html

<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">   Hello, {{newDate | date:'MM/dd/yyyy'}}! </div> 

JS

var myApp = angular.module('myApp',[]);  function MyCtrl($scope) {     var collectionDate = '2002-04-26T09:00:00';       $scope.newDate =new Date(collectionDate); } 

Demo

Answer 2

I know this is in the above answers, but my point is that I think all you need is

new Date(collectionDate); 

if your goal is to convert a date string into a date (as per the OP "How do I convert it to a date object?").