Question

I have a date formatted like this from a Java Server:

YYYY/MM/DD 00:00:00.0

And that is a format that JavaScript won’t accept. So, I do this:

var startDate = '2012-07-27 00:00:00.0';
startDate = startDate.substring(0, 10);

Which then kindly returns 2012-07-27. (Note: I tried it with the time and without)

However, then I want to turn it into a date format I can use to compare two dates. So, I preform this:

startDate = new Date(startDate);

Which, finally, returns this in the log: Invalid Date

So, for the purpose of comparing dates, like so:

if(currentDate > startDate)

I need to be able to get the format I have into one that will be accepted so I can then compare each of the various dates.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You string format is incompatible that is why new Date(datestring) won’t work. You can parse the string yourself with Regex and create a new Date object with explicit values for year, month, date, minute and second . Look at Date.parse for valid format

Or use this https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/UTC after parsing your string
example for your string would be

gmtDate = new Date(Date.UTC(2012, 07, 27, 0, 0, 0));