date() function returning Invalid Date in Safari and Firefox

Question

I am formatting a date in the following way:

date = new Date(\"2013-05-12 20:00:00\");
formattedDate = new Date(date.getFullYear(),date.getMonth(),date.getDate()         


        

Answer 1

I ran into this exact same issue today, do not use dashes as a seperator. This works fine in Chrome but not in Safari/iOS, replacing dashes with slashes fixes this issue. The Date function will otherwise break in Safari.

Incorrect date string with with -

The following code will return the following

new Date('03-25-2017');

Chrome:

Sat Mar 25 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)

Safari:

Invalid Date

So, simply replace - with /.

Correct date string with with /

The following code will return the following

new Date('03/25/2017');

Chrome:

Sat Mar 25 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)

Safari:

Sat Mar 25 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)