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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:06:17+00:00

I’m including the date.js library in my site because I need its functionality. I

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I’m including the date.js library in my site because I need its functionality.

I have just realized, though, that the standard Javascript parse() method is overwritten by it.

I’m trying to build a line chart in Highcharts, and the data series wants the first element to be be in milliseconds (their demos show them using the Date.UTC() method to achieve this, but my data is returned in a different format).

Short of doing a bunch of string manipulation to put my data into a format that Date.UTC will recognize, is there another way of getting the standard Javascript parse() functionality while date.js is loaded?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I know this isn’t a direct solution to your problem, but it may help anyway.

    If you want a fully featured date library that doesn’t modify the native Date object, I wrote one called Moment.js.

    It provides a lot of the things that DateJS provides (formatting, parsing, manipulation, timeago, i18n, etc), but it’s smaller, faster, and doesn’t ruin the native date prototype.

    https://github.com/timrwood/moment

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