Question

Given a date/time string, example:

2010-12-12 19:27:00Z

Using JS/jQuery how can you easily determine if that is today or not?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use Date.parse to convert the string to a timestamp new Date to parse the string into a Date object.

var date = '2010-12-12 19:27:00Z',
    // then = new Date(Date.parse(date)),
    then = new Date(date),
    // Firefox doesn't support dates in this format
    // you can covert it to an accepted format like this:
    // then = new Date(date.replace(/(.*) (.*)Z/,'$1T$2'))
    now = new Date;

Then you can compare the dates.

if(then.toDateString() === now.toDateString())