Question

I have a date string which looks like this:

Thu Feb 09 2012 01:50:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)

And I basically need to re-format it to be 2 strings (one for date and one for time).

The date format needs to be:

m-d-Y (01-16-2012)

and the time should be

H:i (10:30)

Answer 1

I would recommend you take a look at Datejs. It is an excellent JavaScript library for parsing dates. (Making use of jQuery for cleanliness)

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.datejs.com/build/date.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div id="date"></div>
<div id="time"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var d = "Thu Feb 09 2012 01:50:00 GMT+0000";
var dout = Date.parse(d);
$("#date").text(dout.toString('M-d-yyyy')); 
$("#time").text(dout.toString('HH:mm'));     
</script>