Question

i have in jquery:

var start = '2012-11-10 13:10:13';

Why this not working:

var date = new Date(start);

? How can i make it without external plugins?

Answer 1

This is a bit more correct:

var correctStart = '2012-11-10T13:10:13';
var date = new Date(correctStart);

Quoting the Date.parse (MDN) doc:

Alternatively, the date/time string may be in ISO 8601 format.
Starting with JavaScript 1.8.5 / Firefox 4, a subset of ISO 8601 is
supported. For example, “2011-10-10” (just date) or
“2011-10-10T14:48:00 (date and time) can be passed and parsed.

Still, this format is NOT supported by IE8 (as mentioned here). Therefore I suggest at least considering possibility of using external libraries for processing dates – in particular, Moment.js.