I'm working on an offline capabable Javascript site that targets mobile devices. One such mobile device is the IPhone.
I'm trying to parse a date from our REST API (a member of JSON object). I'm using
Date.parse("2010-03-15 10:30:00");
This works on Android devices, however on IPhone it just gives an invalid date.
How do I need to format my date string so it can be parsed by the IPhone?
Not all browsers support the same date formats. The best approach is to split the string on the separator characters (-, and :) instead, and pass each of the resulting array items to the Date constructor:
var arr = "2010-03-15 10:30:00".split(/[- :]/),
date = new Date(arr[0], arr[1]-1, arr[2], arr[3], arr[4], arr[5]);
console.log(date);
//-> Mon Mar 15 2010 10:30:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)
This will work the same in all browsers.