Question

The following code seems to work in Firefox but not in Chrome:

var d = Date.parse("Sep 23, 2012 24:0:0");
alert (d);

It alerts the milliseconds in Firefox but I get a NaN in Chrome.

Of course, the last 3 numbers (24:0:0) might not be counted as a ‘date’, but I’d like to have a simple solution to this to make the code work cross-browser.

Answer 1

This should work for the format you listed:

var parts = "Sep 23, 2012 21:1:2".match(/(.*) (\d+):(\d+):(\d+)/)
var d = new Date(parts[1])
d.setHours(parts[2])
d.setMinutes(parts[3])
var tstamp = d.setSeconds(parts[4])

Not sure if you ultimately want a Date object or integer timestamp, but this should get you both.