How convert String to Date in Javascript?

Question

I have string as 06/08/2013 that I want to convert into Date Object

I do

var transactionDate = Date.parse(transactionDateAsString);

and I get NaN

How can I tell javascript to format the string as dd/mm/yyyy?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5619202/converting-string-to-date-in-js — woofmeow, Aug 06 '13 at 21:10
Duplicate of all of these: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=javascript+date+parse+string. — Felix Kling, Aug 06 '13 at 21:13

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 06 '13 at 21:10

4

Break it down and spoon-feed it:

var parts = transactionDateAsString.split("/");
var date = new Date(parts[2],parts[1]-1,parts[0]);

answered Aug 06 '13 at 21:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 06 '13 at 21:13

0

Date.parse() from the docs:

Parses a string representation of a date, and returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.

You probably want to use the Date constructor:

var transactionDate = new Date(transactionDateAsString);

edited Aug 06 '13 at 21:13

Felix Kling

answered Aug 06 '13 at 21:13

David Hellsing

That makes it `Sat Jun 08 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)` which is incorrect. It should be `August 06` – daydreamer Aug 06 '13 at 21:13
@daydreamer: The native parse functions use the American format `MM/DD/YYYY`. At least it's consistent across browsers. – Bergi Aug 06 '13 at 21:16

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