Question

I have a date/time string like 2012-01-13 04:37:20 but I want to convert it to dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm, how can i do this?

I am using the following code but it throws an exception.

var now = "2012-01-13 04:37:20";
var dd = now.toLocaleDateString() + " " + now.toLocaleTimeString();
alert(dd);

Answer 1

You can do a simple string manipulation and create a JavaScript date object. See function below, which accepts date in format: //yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

Fiddle Demo here

The Script:

function toJSDate(dateTime) {
  var dateTime = dateTime.split(" "); // dateTime[0] = date, dateTime[1] = time

  var date = dateTime[0].split("-");
  var time = dateTime[1].split(":");


  // month is 0 indexed so date[1] - 1 corrected format
  // (year,    month,       day,     hours,   minutes, seconds, milliseconds)
  return new Date(date[0], date[1] - 1, date[2], time[0], time[1], time[2], 0);
}