I want to parse date in my page to Javascript's Date
.
So I have this in my page
<span>01-07-2012 01:04 PM</span>
And I have Javascript code that parses this value to date
var tagText = $(this).html();
var givenDate = new Date(tagText);
alert(givenDate);
And here is what I get in different browsers
IE:
Sat Jan 7 13:04:00 UTC+0400 2012
Chrome:
Sat Jan 07 2012 13:04:00 GMT +0400 (Caucasus Standard Time)
Firefox:
Invalid Date
Why Firefox doesn't recognize my date? What I must change to make it work with all major browsers?
Here is jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/mgER5/1/
try this:
var tagText = $(this).html();
tagText = tagText.replace(/-/g, '/');
var givenDate = new Date(tagText);
alert(givenDate);
As explained in the documentation the string you are passing to the constructor of the Date object should be:
String value representing a date. The string should be in a format recognized by the parse method (IETF-compliant RFC 1123 timestamps).
Basically it should represent an RFC822 or ISO 8601 date.
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