How to convert strings containing only date and month into date format

Question

I have string in below format:

 09Aug

 23Aug

 Sept27

 06Sep

How can I convert these Strings into proper date format? As I am not getting any year in above string so as a year I will consider current year I did a lot of googles but couldn't found anything?

And there's no year or separator between days and months etc, just `09Aug` — adeneo, Sep 05 '17 at 04:25
Possible duplicate of [Converting string to date in js](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5619202/converting-string-to-date-in-js) — Vikas Gupta, Sep 05 '17 at 04:26
its not duplicate, I am getting the string in mentioned format only. So please don't downvote it — Saurabh Garg, Sep 05 '17 at 04:27
with year yes, first of all you have to change format of string like add spaces between day month then convert it — Preet, Sep 05 '17 at 04:32
@Preet: I am not getting any separator else I could have done this — Saurabh Garg, Sep 05 '17 at 04:33

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 05 '17 at 04:33

You'd have to separate the date and month, keep an array of valid months, then pass those numbers into new Date, something like

function parseDate(d) {
  var months = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sept','Oct','Nov','Dec']
  var date   = +d.replace(/\D/g,'');
  var mon    = months.indexOf( d.replace(/\d/g,'') );
  
  return new Date(2017, mon, date);
}

console.log( parseDate("09Aug") );
console.log( parseDate("23Aug") );
console.log( parseDate("Sept27") ); // why four letters ?

(Note: dates are "local" in JS, so parsing them could result in differences, use UTC if important)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '17 at 04:36

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1) Concatenate current year to the string as :

var str1 = '09 Aug';
var str2 = ' '+(new Date()).getFullYear();
var res = str1.concat(str2);//outputs 09 Aug2017
new Date(res);//outputs Wed Aug 09 2017 00:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

answered Sep 05 '17 at 04:36

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How to convert strings containing only date and month into date format

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