Question

The code: new Date('2011-12-15 00:00:00') is showing as NaN.
How can I convert this date?
Any helps are appreciated.

My code is very straight forward. It works in Chrome but not in IE 9.

var dateText = new Date('2012-08-01 00:00:00'); 
alert(dateText.getDate().toString() + "/" + dateText.getMonth().toString() + "/" + dateText.getYear().toString());

Answer 1

After some search in web, realized that the stupid IE does not understand this date format. I do not know about Safari and Firefox, but certainly this works in Chrome.

Either I will have to use some javascript libraries like DateJS for doing this or will have to do some custom coding as below which I will never recommend. Fortunately in my case, I am sure that I will be getting the dates in the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS format.

var dateText = '2011-12-15 00:00:00';
alert(dateText.substring(5, 7) + "/" + dateText.substring(8, 10) + "/" + dateText.substring(0, 4));