Swap month with day in date string in Javascript

Question

I have a date string in format dd/MM/yyyy and I want to create a Date object from this string. new Date(dd/MM/yyyy) won't work..

I have this code, that obviously does not work:

function createDateObject(value){
    try{
        return new Date(value.split('/').**swap(0, 1)**.join('/'));
    }
    catch(){
        return null;
    }
}

createDateObject('31/01/2014') => Fri Jan 31 2014 00:00:00 GMT-0200 (Local Daylight Time)

Which is the simplest way to do this?

I wouldn't like to create a lot of temp variables if I could do it in one single line...

You could use Momentjs (http://momentjs.com) or Sugar (http://sugarjs.com/dates) for date manipulation. — xspydr, Jan 30 '14 at 13:05
Just concatenate the array elements you get from splitting in the right order … — CBroe, Jan 30 '14 at 13:06

Sharanya Dutta · Answer 1 · 2014-01-30T14:21:38.500

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Since your question is how to swap month with day in a string (dd/mm/yyyy to mm/dd/yyyy), this is the answer:

var dateString = "25/04/1987";
dateString = dateString.substr(3, 2)+"/"+dateString.substr(0, 2)+"/"+dateString.substr(6, 4);

However, if you would like to create a new Date() object, you have to change the string according to the ISO 8601 format (dd/mm/yyyy to yyyy-mm-dd):

var dateString = "25/04/1987";
dateString = dateString.substr(6, 4)+"-"+dateString.substr(3, 2)+"-"+dateString.substr(0, 2);
var date = new Date(dateString);

edited Jan 30 '14 at 14:21

answered Jan 30 '14 at 13:06

Sharanya Dutta

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If you want to refine a date including the hours/minutes `"25/04/1987 14:52"` you can add `+ds.substr(10, 15)`, so something like: `dateString.substr(6, 4)+"-"+dateString.substr(3, 2)+"-"+dateString.substr(0, 2)+ds.substr(10, 15)` – Nadav Dec 20 '20 at 11:53

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 13:08

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How about this?

value = value.split("/");
var d = new Date(value[2], parseInt(value[1], 10)-1, value[0]);

You have to subtract 1 from month because JavaScript counts months from 0.

answered Jan 30 '14 at 13:08

freakish

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Andre Figueiredo · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-20T20:48:12.357

Thanks to CBroe I used Array.reverse and it worked with my test cases.

Just replaced **swap with reverse():

function createDateObject(value) {
    try {
        return new Date(value.split('/').reverse().join('/'));
    }
    catch(e) {
        return null;
    }
}

It creates the Date correctly, but let invalid dates to be created, such as Feb/30/2014.
So I also have to validate string using this Answer:

function createDateObject(value) {
    try {
        string formatted = value.split('/').reverse().join('/');
        return isValidDate(formatted) ? new Date(formatted) : null;
    } catch(e) {
        return null;
    }
}

Danny · Answer 4 · 2014-01-30T13:14:54.433

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If you are going to pass a string to the date constructor it is recommend that you use the ISO8601 format. Try this.

function createDateObject(value) {
    try {
        var parts = value.split('/');
        return new Date(parts[2] + "-" + parts[1] + "-" + parts[0]);
    } catch () {
        return null;
    }
}

edited Jan 30 '14 at 13:14

answered Jan 30 '14 at 13:08

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 30 '14 at 13:10

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You can use split to swich your items like this :

function createDateObject(value){
  var splitDate = value.split("/");
  return new Date(splitDate[2],splitDate[1],splitDate[0]);
}

answered Jan 30 '14 at 13:10

Maxdow

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Swap month with day in date string in Javascript

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