Question

I am trying to get a date object from a string from an input.
I found out I can just pass the string to the Date() constructor.
So if I enter “12 june 2012” into my input text, Date(“12 june 2012”) will give me the date object so I can convert it further into Y-m-d format, for my database.

The problem is:

If I enter just “12 june”, it will automatically add the year 2001, which is the default I guess. So the result would be 2001-06-12. I want it to use the default year if no year is given. Any ideas how to do this? I don’t want to parse the string, because the date can be entered in several formats, so i won’t know what exactly to parse.

Thank you.

Edit:
Problem solved, the datejs library did all the work 🙂 Thank you all for the help.

Answer 1

Not sure if there is any easy way to do that in standard JS, but you could try using a date library like this:

http://www.datejs.com/