Date parsing in javascript is different between safari and chrome

Question

I have the following code

var c = new Date(Date.parse("2011-06-21T14:27:28.593Z")); console.log(c); 

On Chrome it correctly prints out the date on the console. In Safari it fails. Who is correct and more importantly what is the best way to handle this?

Answer 1

You can't really use Date.parse. I suggest you use: new Date (year, month [, date [, hours [, minutes [, seconds [, ms ] ] ] ] ] )

To split the string you could try

var s = '2011-06-21T14:27:28.593Z'; var a = s.split(/[^0-9]/); //for (i=0;i<a.length;i++) { alert(a[i]); } var d=new Date (a[0],a[1]-1,a[2],a[3],a[4],a[5] ); alert(s+ " "+d);