Parse ONLY a time string with DateJS

Question

I\'m using the excellent (but large) DateJS library to handle dates and times in my webapp. I just came across something that I\'m not sure how to handle.

I want my

Answer 1

The additive approach seems cumbersome. Takes away the beauty of DateJS in my opinion. I needed the same solution and decided to just sneakily append the date in front of my input string before parsing with DateJS:

var parsed = Date.parse(Date.today().toString('M/d/yyyy') + ' ' + this.value);

if (parsed) {
  alert(parsed.toString('h:mm tt'));
}

Now DateJS will not be sniffing around for any of its date-part parsing patterns, as you have already subbed it in.

Hope this helps someone!