Question

In PHP if i have:

$date = "2012-01-18 16:00";

I can do:

$newDate = new DateTime($date);

In JS (jQuery) i have:

var date = "2012-01-18 16:00";

why i can’t:

var newDate = new Date(date);

? This return me Invalid date.

Answer 1

In order for that string to be parsed, you need a T between the date and the time

var date = "2012-01-18T16:00";
var newDate = new Date(date);

so to fix your original code:

var date = "2012-01-18 16:00";
date = date.replace(" ", "T");
var newDate = new Date(date);

DEMO

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The Date constructor will also take a year, month, and day

var newDate = new Date(2012, 1, 18)

though to get that to work you’d have to split your string up.