Simplest way to parse a Date in Javascript

Question

I want to parse a Date chosen by user:

var ds = \"11 / 08 / 2009\";

I use

var d = new Date(ds);

It gives

Answer 1

There are lots of libraries and copy-and-paste javascript snippets on the net for this kind of thing, but here is one more.

function dateParse(s) {
  var parts = s.split('/');
  var d = new Date( parts[2], parts[1]-1, parts[0]);
  return d;
}