Question

I’m trying to convert date formats in javascript. I get a string from a form and then try to convert it to a date object and then change the formats. How do I fix my code below so that the datetime which normally looks like this: 3/31/2012 00:00
gets converted so that it looks like this: 2012-03-31 00:00?

Here is what my code looks like:

function load(form) {

if (form != null){
var startdt = getDateFromFormat(form.datetime1.value,"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm");
var enddt = getDateFromFormat(form.datetime2.value,"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm");

startdt2 = dateFormat(startdt, "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm");
enddt2 = dateFormat(enddt, "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm");

//can be used for debugging but stops script
//var now = Date();
//now.format(MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm);
//want new format(yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm)

alert("Values are: " + startdt2 + " " + enddt2);

}
//rest of function

}

EDIT:
THere is no output with the code above, but when I change it to:

function load(form) {

if (form != null){
var startdt = form.datetime1.value;
var enddt = form.datetime2.value
//can be used for debugging but stops script
//var now = Date();
//now.format(MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm);
//want new format(yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm)
alert("Values are: " + startdt + " and " + enddt);

}
//rest of function edited out
}

Then the alert output is:
Values are: 3/31/2012 00:00 and 3/31/2012 23:59

Answer 1

function load(form) {

    if (form != null){
        var startdt = new Date(form.datetime1.value);
        var enddt = new Date(form.datetime2.value);
        var startformat = startdt.getFullYear() + "-" + (startdt.getMonth()+1) + "-" + startdt.getDate() + " " + startdt.getHours() +":" + startdt.getMinutes();
        var endformat = enddt.getFullYear() + "-" + (enddt.getMonth()+1) + "-" + enddt.getDate() + " " + enddt.getHours() +":" + enddt.getMinutes();

        alert("Values are: " + startformat + " " + endformat);
    }
     //rest of function edited out for brevity

  }

This got me what I was looking for.