Question

I am trying to create a new date object from string as follows:

var myDate= new Date("1985-01-01T00:00:00.000-06:00");

On FireFox, it alerts the following

Tue Jan 01 1985 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

On IE8, it alerts the following

NaN

Why IE is acting up this way?

Answer 1

Looking to the documetation the right format is the following:

  new Date(year, month, day [, hour, minute, second, millisecond ]) 

So if you run the following code it will be fine in all browsers:

 var myDate= new Date(1985, 01, 01 , 00, 06, 00, 0000000000);
 myDate // you get the right date in all browsers IE8/7 included