Question

Hello I’m using the fullcalendar jQuery plugin to create a calendar app. When I call the start method on the event object the date format I get is like this:

ISO FORMAT:

Sun Nov 27 2011 06:30:00 GMT+0200 (EET)

Now I want to keep only the time and minutes of the event:

6 hours

30 minutes

in our example.

How can I trim/parse only the time with JavaScript?

Answer 1

You can use Date.parse:

var your_date = "Sun Nov 27 2011 06:30:00 GMT+0200 (EET)";
var t = Date.parse(your_date); // date in milliseconds since January 1, 1970
var d = new Date(t);
d.getHours(); // 6 hours
d.getMinutes(); // 30 minutes

Take a look at http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp to more JavaScript Date options.