Question

I cant get the month and day from the date object like this : “2009/12/30”

The error which gives in the console is: TypeError: created_at.getMonth is not a function

    function search(){
    var value = $('#box').val();
    var array=[];
    var dateArray = [];
    var datesString;
    if (value!==""){$.getJSON("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?callback=?&q=value&rpp=5",
      function(data){

   $.each(data.results, function(i, item){
       var user=item.from_user;
      var created_at=item.created_at;
      var n=created_at.toString();
       var month=n.getMonth();
      var day = n.getDate();
      var year = n.getFullYear();
      var created=month+day+year;
      array.push({date:created,username:user});
     });

Anyone knows what the problem is?
thanks!

Answer 1

JSON doesn’t support Date values directly, so Twitter is serializing each created_at value as a String that you’ll first have to parse:

var user = item.from_user;
var created_at = new Date(item.created_at);

Then, you can use Date methods to get information from it:

var month = created_at.getMonth();
var day = created_at.getDate();
var year = created_at.getFullYear();

Also, if created is intended to be a Date at midnight, try this instead:

var created = new Date(year, month, day);