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I've got a AJAX call that returns a JSON string containing several different DateTimes. If I don't convert them, I get strings like /Date(1224043200000-0600)/. If I convert them using the Date function in JavaScript, it returns the current time. I've read a post about this, but it doesn't answer my question. Here's a simplified script which can be pasted in a new file which shows my problem. The Raw Span should show the original string and the Converted Span should show the converted object.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html dir="ltr">
    <body>
        <span id="raw">Raw</span><br />
        <span id="converted">Converted</span>

        <script type="text/javascript">
            var datum = "/Date(1224043200000-0600)/";

            function formatDate(value) {
                return Date(value);
            }

            var RAW = document.getElementById("raw");
            var CONVERTED = document.getElementById("converted");

            RAW.innerHTML = datum;
            CONVERTED.innerHTML = formatDate(datum);
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

The result of this code is as follows:

/Date(1224043200000-0600)/
 Mon Aug 22 10:35:21 UTC+0200 2011

Can someone tell my what I should do to show the right DateTime in the object? The grid which contains all my dates, shows the current time in every cell, although JSON returns different strings all the time.

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There's a bug in your code, you are returning a call to the Date object, which gets the current date as a string. You should do a return new Date(value); to get a new object.

Also add this:

var date = new Date(parseInt(datum.substr(6)));
CONVERTED.innerHTML = formatDate(date);

See a test here http://jsfiddle.net/uwSCN/ .

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  • Thank you! The problem turned out to be a combination of two: had to create a new date object + had to change the input string. It now works as it should do. – Leonard Aug 22 '11 at 09:00
  • Thank you! I had a similar problem and I simply could not understand what was happening! – George Dec 08 '11 at 02:01