Question

I need help/tips on converting an ISO 8601 date with the following structure into JavaScript:

CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD

I’d like to format the date like so:

January 28, 2011 - 7:30PM EST

I’d like to keep this solution as clean and minimal as possible.

Answer 1

datejs could parse following, you might want to try out.

Date.parse('1997-07-16T19:20:15')           // ISO 8601 Formats
Date.parse('1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00')     // ISO 8601 with Timezone offset

Edit: Regex version

x = "2011-01-28T19:30:00EST"

MM = ["January", "February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November", "December"]

xx = x.replace(
    /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):\d{2}(\w{3})/,
    function($0,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6){
        return MM[$2-1]+" "+$3+", "+$1+" - "+$4%12+":"+$5+(+$4>12?"PM":"AM")+" "+$6
    }
)

Result

January 28, 2011 - 7:30PM EST

Edit2: I changed my timezone to EST and now I got following

x = "2011-01-28T19:30:00-05:00"

MM = {Jan:"January", Feb:"February", Mar:"March", Apr:"April", May:"May", Jun:"June", Jul:"July", Aug:"August", Sep:"September", Oct:"October", Nov:"November", Dec:"December"}

xx = String(new Date(x)).replace(
    /\w{3} (\w{3}) (\d{2}) (\d{4}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):[^(]+\(([A-Z]{3})\)/,
    function($0,$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6){
        return MM[$1]+" "+$2+", "+$3+" - "+$4%12+":"+$5+(+$4>12?"PM":"AM")+" "+$6 
    }
)

return

January 28, 2011 - 7:30PM EST

Basically

String(new Date(x))

return

Fri Jan 28 2011 19:30:00 GMT-0500 (EST)

regex parts just converting above string to your required format.

January 28, 2011 - 7:30PM EST