Question

a text-input contains a german formatted date 15.09.2012
I simply use $('#wr_event_date').val() to query the value in the input-field.

I wonder how I can match that date agains “today”?

var eventDate = $('#wr_event_date').val();

   // if eventDate is older than today as in "is over" doSomething();

So basically I want to check if the eventDate is older than today and if so I want to doSomething();

Ideas on that? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, you have to parse the date yourself. Then, fetch the current date with new Date(), reset the time part, and compare both dates:

var s = $('#wr_event_date').val().split(".");
var eventDate = new Date(s[2], s[1] - 1, s[0]);

var today = new Date();
today.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0); // reset time

if (eventDate.getTime() - today.getTime() < 0) { // event date is older than today
  doSomething();
}

DEMO.