Question

I made the following function to get the number of seconds from a time string.

function TimeStringToSeconds(TimeString){
    var TotalTime = 0;
    var SplitString = TimeString.toString().split(':');
    TotalTime += parseInt(SplitString[0])*3600;
    TotalTime += parseInt(SplitString[1])*60;
    TotalTime += parseInt(SplitString[2]);
    return TotalTime;
}

It works, but not if the input contains an 8 or an 9, example:

TimeStringToSeconds('00:01:00'); // Outputs 60
TimeStringToSeconds('00:02:00'); // Outputs 120
TimeStringToSeconds('00:08:00'); // Outputs 0   ???????

What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Always include the radix:

parseInt(SplitString[0], 10)

Without it, "08" is parsed in octal base, with 8 being an invalid digit.

See also: parseInt at MDN