I have a string looking like so:
"2013/1/16"
Is there any way I could quickly convert it into date object in javascript, something like:
convertToDateTime("2013/1/16", "yyyy/MM/dd")
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look at this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1056728/formatting-a-date-in-javascript – Jerome Cance Jan 07 '13 at 13:42
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/476105/how-can-i-convert-string-to-datetime-with-format-specification-in-javascript – Dawid Sajdak Jan 07 '13 at 13:43
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It's pretty simple:
var myDate = new Date("2013/1/16");
That should do the trick.
Have a look at the documentation for the Date object
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i do `new Date("12-01-2019")` and it gives me `Sun Dec 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)` . what if i want the date object to be the 12th Jan and not 1st December – Abhi Feb 12 '19 at 08:44
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@Abhi Use substr function to change the date to 2019-01-12 and add "T00:00:00" to it, to make it look like: "2019-01-12T00:00:00" This way, Date object knows it is a date in ISO format and it correctly detects month and day. – Arash HF Jul 04 '19 at 08:05
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Time zones can present a confusing (and I hope I don't make it worse here). yada = new Date("2013/1/16") returns an object representing 12AM in the time zone of the machine on which that code is run, in my case Wed Jan 16 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) yada.getUTCHours() retuns 8 - the corresponding time in London. 8 – captain puget Dec 26 '21 at 01:06
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var myDate = new Date("2013/1/16");
var str = "2013/1/16"; var strToDate = new Date(str);
