Remove time from a date/time string using jQuery

Question

What is an efficient way to strip the time from this returned dataset using jQuery? I need the time to exist in the database because of ordering purposes however I need to display only the date.

<adopt_date>Apr 25 2013 2:41PM</adopt_date> is an example of a result from my Web Service.

Here is how I currently usethe information if it helps:

var adopted_date = $(this).find('adopt_date').text();

Where $(this) is dataset.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this:

$("adopt_date").html(function (index, value) {
    return value.replace(/\d{1,2}:\d{2}(AM|PM)/ig, '');
});

FIDDLE

Answer 2

You can do this with plain JavaScript:

adopted_date = adopted_date.replace(/ [0-9]*[0-9]:[0-9][0-9]A*P*M/,'');

jsFiddle example