Javascript Date Format Conversion for comparison

Question

My objective to get the date in day month year format from a textbox and convert it to mm/dd/yyyy format so that i can compare dates

var userDate = document.getElementById("dateOfJourney").value; //eg 21/05/2013
var formattedUserDate = new Date( userDate.replace( /(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4})/, "$2/$1/$3"));
alert(formattedUserDate);

i'm trying to escape 'forward slash' but i'm getting invalid date output eg. 05/21/2013

Read this first - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1056728/formatting-a-date-in-javascript — GEMI, May 21 '13 at 10:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '13 at 10:48

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You could have done like.

var userDate = "21/5/2013".split("/");
var newDate = userDate[1]+"/"+userDate[0]+"/"+userDate[2];
var formattedUserDate = new Date(newDate);
alert(formattedUserDate);

instead of using the regex. Here is a working sample.

answered May 21 '13 at 10:48

Mithun Satheesh

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