JavaScript - Tell Date() to return in specific format

Question

I have a date string and I want to convert it into a date object using date(). It's doing so but the problem is, date() processes any date as 'MM-dd-yyyy'.

I tried following code:

var myDate = '09-06-2017'; //which is a string and is in 'dd-MM-yyyy' format from my perspective

var selectedDate = new Date(myDate);
$scope.minDate = $filter('date')(selectedDate, 'yyyy/MM/dd');

console.log(selectedDate);
console.log($scope.minDate);

It will process this date as 06-09-2017 and if I pass '13-06-2017'(i.e. any value greater than 12) then it will throw 'Invalid Date' in console.

So I'm looking for a solution by which I can tell date() to process the passed string in a specific format.

Thank You.

You could give it duplicate flag if you feel so rather than downvoting. — TheCleverIdiot, Sep 01 '17 at 09:01
You could do some research before asking a question that's already been asked, several times. The downvote prompt states *"**This question does not show any research effort**; it is unclear or not useful"*. — Liam, Sep 01 '17 at 09:31
OHH.. research.. that's what I think I was doing from the 3 or 4 hours before I asked here a question. And anyhow, the question you guys mentioned of which my question seems to be duplicate, has not the answer I'm looking for. So thank you very much for your kind responses. — TheCleverIdiot, Sep 02 '17 at 05:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 01 '17 at 09:01

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With out using any libraries you can split the date in to parts and pass them to Date(year, month, day) constructor.

var myDate = '09-06-2017';
var myDateParts = myDate.split('-');
var selectedDate = new Date(myDateParts[2], myDateParts[0] - 1, myDateParts[1]);

console.log(selectedDate);

answered Sep 01 '17 at 09:01

Jurij Jazdanov

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It could've helped but the problem is that the date string is not static, and the date format can vary depending on the country of the user – TheCleverIdiot Sep 01 '17 at 09:05
then you need a library, perhaps moent.js. In other case the only solution would be doing a bunch of if/else what would be a dirty solution – Jurij Jazdanov Sep 01 '17 at 09:06
Well, of course it is a dirty solution, but it seems I have no other option and I'm implementing it. Thank You for your help.. I've used ur logic .. – TheCleverIdiot Sep 02 '17 at 07:45
and also can u explain why u decremented month by 1? – TheCleverIdiot Sep 02 '17 at 07:46
Month starts from 0 – Jurij Jazdanov Sep 02 '17 at 07:53
Ohh.. cool, thanks. – TheCleverIdiot Sep 04 '17 at 05:01

JavaScript - Tell Date() to return in specific format

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