Javascript datetime parsing from string

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I am trying to parse a string to javascript Date object, I tried different ways to parse it to Date but none of them seems to work. Initially I was thinking it will be easy to parse string to Date as JavaScript Date has constructor that takes a string or I would use Date.parse() method but it seems that I was wrong.

Here is string for date format- 2015-12-01 00:28:28.1271204 +01:00

What I have tried so far-

var dateCalc = new Date(str);
var dateCalc = Date.parse(str);

Please this JSFiddle - http://jsfiddle.net/D7c28/12/

Please suggest solution for this. Please let me know if I am missing something.

Thanks :)

Have you checked the documentation? The Date.parse() method only parses the date formats it's designed to parse. If you have a date in another format, you'll have to interpret it with your own code or else defer to a library like Moment.js. — Pointy
– Pointy, Commented Dec 8, 2015 at 14:01
Thanks @Pointy, I will surely check documentation, I missed that :) — Nikhil Chavan
– Nikhil Chavan, Commented Dec 8, 2015 at 14:04

iplus26 · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-08 14:54:55Z

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It works fine for me:

var str = "Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:00:00 -0600"
var date = new Date(str);

console.log(date.getDate())  // 15

date is a Date object with many methods like getDate(). Check out the documentation.

Update:

2015-12-01 00:28:28.1271204 +01:00 seems not to be a valid date for the default constructor (but works fine in node on my Mac). So I use moment.js and it works fine.

Check out the updated jsfiddle.

edited Dec 8, 2015 at 14:54

answered Dec 8, 2015 at 14:17

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Nikhil Chavan Over a year ago

Sorry I changed the str value. You can check actual format in question I have asked. It works for the format you have pointed out.

iplus26 Over a year ago

@NikhilChavan Check out the updated jsfiddle

Shiroo · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-08 14:04:26Z

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I'm almost sure that

var dateString = "2015-12-01 00:28:28.1271204 +01:00";
var dateCalc = new Date(dateString);

Will work (dateCalc) will have a proper date (that is, Tue Dec 01 2015 00;28:28 GMT+0100.

If you want to be a more flxeible with the solution you always can try MomentJS which gives you a lot of possibilties with format, localization and such stuff.

answered Dec 8, 2015 at 14:04

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Shiroo Over a year ago

But what are you trying exactly? Because dateCalc will have a proper Date object which has methods like getDate and such. dateCalc.getDate() I quite can't understand why you are using split and pop over there? Check for example jsfiddle.net/n23v7tun

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