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I have a twitter feed and I create a new date obj so I can format the date to my liking.
var created = new Date(this.created_at) works in firefox and chrome but not in IE7. I seem to be having trouble passing the date through the new Date() function. It just returns undefined and NaN.
Here is the code. If you try to test it out don't forget to include jquery. Thank you.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Twitter Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" >
$(function(){
$.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/google.json?count=1&callback=?", function(data){
$.each(data, function(){
var created = new Date(this.created_at)
$("<div></div>").append("<ul><li>Unformatted: " + this.created_at + "</li><li>Formatted: " + created + "</li></ul>").appendTo("body")
});
})
})
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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Date methods allow you to get and set the year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond of date objects, using either local time or UTC (universal, or GMT) time.
JavaScript does not have a date data type. However, you can use the Date object and its methods to work with dates and times in your applications. The Date object has a large number of methods for setting, getting, and manipulating dates. It does not have any properties.
“declare date variable in javascript” Code Answervar date = new Date(); //Will use computers date by default.
You'll want to make sure the date is parsed as UTC, because otherwise javascript will interpret it as a date in your local timezone.
The date looks like this: Tue Jul 13 23:18:36 +0000 2010
You can parse it like this:
function parseDate(str) {
var v=str.split(' ');
return new Date(Date.parse(v[1]+" "+v[2]+", "+v[5]+" "+v[3]+" UTC"));
}
Which will give the correct date/time in the local timezone, for example: Tue Jul 13 2010 19:18:36 GMT-0400 (EDT)
So that should leave your code looking something like this:
$(function(){
$.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/google.json?count=1&callback=?", function(data){
$.each(data, function(){
var created = parseDate(this.created_at);
$("<div></div>").append("<ul><li>Unformatted: " + this.created_at + "</li><li>Formatted: " + created + "</li></ul>").appendTo("body");
});
});
function parseDate(str) {
var v=str.split(' ');
return new Date(Date.parse(v[1]+" "+v[2]+", "+v[5]+" "+v[3]+" UTC"));
}
});
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