Question

I’m receiving a date from a data source which is returned to javascript code.

2011-01-03T05:53:00Z

What is the best way to format this date? The TZ doesn’t need to be offset as the users will all be in the same zone, I need a method to simply format it.

03/01/2011 05:53:00

I have already done this in a couple of lines with replace() but is there a more elegant solution?

Answer 1

Using back reference:

var dat = "2001-08-01T12:00:00Z";
var newDat = dat.replace(/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T([0-9:]+)Z/, "$2/$3/$1 $4");
alert(newDat);