Can jQuery DateTime parse this date?

Question

I have a datetime of the form:

var myDate = "2013-06-07T00:00:00.000Z"

I wish to do

jQuery.datepicker.parseDate( "yy-mm-dd", myDate);

I don't care about the time part.

I get:

"Extra/unparsed characters found in date: T00:00:00.000Z"

Best I got so far is:

myDate = myDate.replace('T00:00:00.000Z', '');
myDate = jQuery.datepicker.parseDate("yy-mm-dd", myDate).toUTCString();

Please help.

Answer 1

As it is ISO date format, I think you can call new Date(myDate) directly there is no need to parse it I think

var date = new Date(myDate);

Answer 2

If you don't care about the time part, why not simply

jQuery.datepicker.parseDate( "yy-mm-dd", myDate.split("T")[0]);

Perhaps for general DateTime handling, have a look at moment.js