Firefox new Date() from string constructs time in local time zone

Question

I am trying to create a date object from a string. I get date in ISO format except milliseconds part like "2012-01-30T16:23:12"

Results differ when I run following code in IE, Chrome and Firefox (Link to Fiddle)

currentDate = "2012-01-30T16:23:12";
var date = new Date(currentDate);
alert(date);

IE and Chrome considers the string as UTC but firefox considers in local time zone.

Is there any generic way to get around it except for checking user agent everywhere?

Answer 1

You could try appending the zero timezone offset +00:00 for UTC:

currentDate = "2012-01-30T16:23:12+00:00";

Does that help? (Sorry I can't test it without actually changing my timezone.)

Answer 2

Hm, possible workaround is to parse string and use methods.

setUTCDate()    
setUTCFullYear()
setUTCHours()

Probably, there is better solution