Javascript does have a good Date object that can be used to manipulate dates in your script. Another benefit it sports is that it can take several string formats and create a Date object from that string. However, despite their efforts to use the most common strings you will likely come across a date format that doesn’t automatically convert over to the Date object.
This may be a little quick and dirty, but if you know your date string format is going to always be in a particular format, it is easy to convert that date string into a string that could be interpreted by the Date object constructor. Here is an example of such an effort:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | <script> dateString = "09-Jan-10"; var parts = dateString.match(/([0-9]*)\-([a-zA-Z]*)\-([0-9]*)/); dateString = parts[2] + " " + parts[1] + ", 20" + parts[3]; var myDate = new Date(dateString); document.write("Date :" + myDate.getDate()); document.write("<BR>"); //getMonth is 0 based for some reason so add 1 to the result document.write("Month : " + myDate.getMonth()+1); document.write("<BR>");document.write("Year : " + myDate.getFullYear()); </script> |