Question

Novice question. I’ve got a string in the following format:

var dateStr = '2012-4-14';

I want to make it into a JavaScript Date object. The following creates a Date object in Chrome, but is NaN in IE8:

var myDate = new Date(dateStr);

What should I be doing differently – should I split the string?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try splitting your date string into year, month, day and instantiating your date differently.

var rawDate = '2012-4-14'.split('-');

var myDate = new Date(rawDate[0], rawDate[1]-1, rawDate[2]);

Note that this will only work if you can guarantee that your date string will be of the same format each time.