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Help parsing ISO 8601 date in Javascript

I think this should be very simple but turned out amazingly tedious.

From WEB API, I received selected object via ajax, and one of its properties is InspectionDate datetime string such as 2012-05-14T00:00:00

In javascript, I use following code to have correct date object

selected.JsInspectionDate = new Date(selected.InspectionDate);

But JsInspectionDate shows

2012/05/14 00:00 in firefox, 
2012/05/13 20:00 in chrome and 
NAN in IE9

for 2012-05-14T00:00:00.

Could someone tell me why this problem occurs? And how to fix this issue? I just want to show as in firefox for all browsers.

Answer 1

Do this:

new Date(selected.InspectionDate + "Z")

Rationale: Your dates are in ISO 8601 form. Timezone designators like "Z", a very short one for UTC, work.

Note! IE might not understand ISO 8601 dates. All bets are off. In this case, better use datejs.