Question

I’m using jQuery and want to format a date. I don’t want to have to import another plug-in for jQuery. I have found a solution that works in JavaScript i.e.

var now = new Date(); 

var curr_date = d.getDate();

var curr_month = d.getMonth();

curr_month++;

var curr_year = d.getFullYear();

$('##optionButtons').append('<a href="##"class="btn">' 
+ curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" 
+ curr_year + '</a> </ br>');

However, when I add the date shown in the example below I get the following error, why?

var d = value.CREATED;

var curr_date = d.getDate();

var curr_month = d.getMonth();

curr_month++;

var curr_year = d.getFullYear();

$('##optionButtons').append('<a href="##">' 
+ curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" 
+ curr_year + '</a> </ br>');   

ERROR #####################
d.getDate is not a function
###########################

The value of ‘value.CREATED’ is October, 25 2012 00:00:00+0000

Answer 1

I would suggest you to send the date in milliseconds from the server, and then create the date object in javascript as new Date(milliseconds).

See reference here: http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_obj_date.asp

OR

var d = new Date(value.created); //new Date('October, 25 2012 00:00:00+0000')

EDIT: Considering your value.created to be a string, I could parse it in the DEMO here.

I hope this would work.