How to correctly use JavaScript indexOf in a date array

Question

Here is the code:

var collection = [new Date(2014, 11, 25), new Date(2014, 11, 24)];
var d=new Date(2014, 11, 24);

var idx= collection.indexOf(d);

Answer 1

Two Objects will never be equal unless you serialise them. Lucky, Date is pretty easy to serialise as an integer.

var collection = [new Date(2014, 11, 25), new Date(2014, 11, 24)],
    d = new Date(2014, 11, 24),
    idx;

idx = collection.map(Number).indexOf(+d); // 1
//              ^^^^^^^^^^^^         ^ serialisation steps