doing the reverse of date.getTime()

Question

I am converting DateObject to string doing

   var date = new Date(); //Tue Nov 01 2016 17:00:48 GMT-0400 (EDT)
   var string = date.toString();  //Tue Nov 01 2016 17:00:48 GMT-0400 (EDT)

Now I want to convert the my string to date object.How can I do this?

   var dateObject = ??????

Answer 1

Dates are very easy to convert. As a string:

var date = new Date();
var dateStr = date.toString();
var dateObject = new Date(dateStr);

As a number:

var dateNum = date*1;
dateObject = new Date(dateNum);