Use JavaScript to Parse Time

Question

This is probably something easy, but I\'m a bit confused how to do this. How can I, using JavaScript, parse only the time from the following ISO 8601 date string:

Answer 1

Chrome & Firefox: Standard JavaScript Date constructor takes ISO 8601 date string. For example:

var sampleDate = new Date("2010-03-07T02:13:46Z");

Returns this Date object: "Sun Mar 07 2010 13:13:46 GMT+1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)"

This does not work in IE (including latest IE 9)

Here is a cross-browser solution by Paul Sowden at http://delete.me.uk/2005/03/iso8601.html :

Date.prototype.setISO8601 = function (string) {
    var regexp = "([0-9]{4})(-([0-9]{2})(-([0-9]{2})" +
        "(T([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})(:([0-9]{2})(\.([0-9]+))?)?" +
        "(Z|(([-+])([0-9]{2}):([0-9]{2})))?)?)?)?";
    var d = string.match(new RegExp(regexp));

    var offset = 0;
    var date = new Date(d[1], 0, 1);

    if (d[3]) { date.setMonth(d[3] - 1); }
    if (d[5]) { date.setDate(d[5]); }
    if (d[7]) { date.setHours(d[7]); }
    if (d[8]) { date.setMinutes(d[8]); }
    if (d[10]) { date.setSeconds(d[10]); }
    if (d[12]) { date.setMilliseconds(Number("0." + d[12]) * 1000); }
    if (d[14]) {
        offset = (Number(d[16]) * 60) + Number(d[17]);
        offset *= ((d[15] == '-') ? 1 : -1);
    }

    offset -= date.getTimezoneOffset();
    time = (Number(date) + (offset * 60 * 1000));
    this.setTime(Number(time));
}

Usage:

var date = new Date();
date.setISO8601("2005-03-26T19:51:34Z");

If you do a lot of datetime manipulation in JavaScript, I can also suggest to check some JS libraries like MomentJS. It handles some common things like date parsing, formatting and calculating difference between two dates and has support for multiple localizations.