Date issue in Firefox

Question

I want to parse date in my page to Javascript\'s Date.

So I have this in my page

01-07-2012 01:04 PM


        

Answer 1

try this:

var tagText = $(this).html();
tagText = tagText.replace(/-/g, '/');
var givenDate = new Date(tagText);
alert(givenDate);

Answer 2

What I must change to make it work with all major browsers?

Write it in milliseconds.

Answer 3

If you really want full cross-browser support for any date format, you should take a look at moment.js. It allows you to be explicit about the input format. For example:

var m = moment('01-07-2012 01:04 PM', 'DD-MM-YYYY  hh:mm a');

Answer 4

As explained in the documentation the string you are passing to the constructor of the Date object should be:

String value representing a date. The string should be in a format recognized by the parse method (IETF-compliant RFC 1123 timestamps).

Basically it should represent an RFC822 or ISO 8601 date.