Jquery Date.parse returning NaN in Chrome browser?

Question

I have a senario where i have to parse two dates for example start date and end date.

var startdate = '02/01/2011';
var enddate = '31/12/2011';

But if we alert start date

 alert(Date.Parse(startdate)); i will get 1296498600000

but if i alert enddate

 alert(Date.Parse(enddate)); i will get NaN

But this is working in other browsers except Chrome, But in other browsers

alert(Date.Parse(enddate)); i will get 1370889000000

Can anybody know a workaround for this?

Unable to reproduce, works for me: http://jsfiddle.net/b77DE/1/ — Darin Dimitrov, Nov 01 '11 at 10:09
Oh, and by the way the [parse](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/parse) method expects the string to be formatted as RFC822 or ISO 8601 date. — Darin Dimitrov, Nov 01 '11 at 10:13
Before Darin deleted the tags, I noticed you were using ASP.NET. Does this export the data to the page? Can we see the .NET code that exports this? — Connell, Nov 01 '11 at 10:14
Hi guys i have edited my question. please try this. it will not work. — Febin J S, Nov 01 '11 at 10:15
`Date.parse` (lowercase!). And Date format must be `'mm/dd/yyyy'` for `Date.parse`! — Andrew D., Nov 01 '11 at 10:42
@kara:- As you said that this is culture specific issue then how come this works in other browsers except chrome? — Febin J S, Nov 01 '11 at 11:08

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 31 '12 at 07:55

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If you want to parse a date without local differences, use the following, instead of Date.parse():

var enddate = '31/12/2011'; //DD/MM/YYYY
var split = enddate.split('/');
// Month is zero-indexed so subtract one from the month inside the constructor
var date = new Date(split[2], split[1] - 1, split[0]); //Y M D 
var timestamp = date.getTime();

See also: Date

edited Jul 31 '12 at 07:55

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answered Nov 01 '11 at 10:20

Rob W

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This helps me a lot in resolving, Thanks Rob – Febin J S Nov 01 '11 at 11:35
Thanks, hit a similar bug and you saved me, +1 – iamserious Jan 10 '12 at 11:28
Careful using this - it's just caught me out as months appear to be 0 indexed for some strange reason... var date = new Date(split[2], parseInt(split[1] - 1), split[0]); worked though. – CatBusStop Jul 30 '12 at 14:29
It certainly appeared to be dd/mm/yyyy - using this with 28/06/2012 then showing the date in an alert gave me 28th Jul 2012 :S – CatBusStop Jul 30 '12 at 14:36
@TomAllen Oops, I misunderstand your first comment. I thought that you meant that month was at index zero of the `split` array. The month starts counting at index zero indeed, see [MDN: `Date`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/#Parameters). – Rob W Jul 30 '12 at 20:42

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '11 at 10:18

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According to this

dateString A string representing an RFC822 or ISO 8601 date.

I've tried your code and I also get NaN for the end date, but if i swap the date and month around, it works fine.

answered Nov 01 '11 at 10:18

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