jquery datepicker parse date wildcard

Question

I'm looking for the right wildcard character to use with jquery.datepicker.parseDate() in the doc it says to use '...' for literal text and also "anything else - literal text". The problem comes when it hits the 'th', 'rd', 'nd', or 'st' that comes after the day number.

I have tried

$.datepicker.parseDate('M d... 2012', 'Jun 28th, 2012');

and it didn't work. Any suggestions?

with PHP's date function the character for the ordinal suffix is 'S' — Devin Crossman, Jun 28 '12 at 14:22

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

Currently you can't do this with parseDate, see Adding "st, nd, rd, th" to jquery datepicker and the following pull request to add such functionality - https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/438.

I would recommend removing 'st', 'rd', 'nd', and 'th' from the end of the day before calling parseDate and then using this.

$.datepicker.parseDate('M dd yy', 'Jun 28th 2012');

While not ideal this will work too.

var myDate;

try {
    myDate = $.datepicker.parseDate('M ddth yy', 'Jun 28th 2012');
} catch (e) {}
try {
    myDate = $.datepicker.parseDate('M ddst yy', 'Jun 28th 2012');
} catch (e) {}
try {
    myDate = $.datepicker.parseDate('M ddrd yy', 'Jun 28th 2012');
} catch (e) {}
try {
    myDate = $.datepicker.parseDate('M ddnd yy', 'Jun 28th 2012');
} catch (e) {}

What is the point of parsing 'M ddst yy' (2nd try) while 'M ddth yy' (1st try) is already correct? — Wojciech Jasiński, Jan 26 '13 at 11:00

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