Javascript convert string to a date 1

[kathyc20]

I have a variable called sTempDate which contains the value:

'03/08/2005'

How do I convert this string variable to a date?

Thanks.

 

[tsuji]

Like this?
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var s="03/08/2005";
var odt=new Date(Date.parse(s))
alert(odt.getFullYear()+"\n"+odt.getMonth()+"\n"+odt.getDate());
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[BabyJeffy]

Ahhh... but is that dd/mm/yyyy or is it mm/dd/yyyy? If you are getting unexpected results from the code that tsuji posted, then it could be that you are using a different date format.

Why, oh why did we ever let the Americans change everything

Cheers,
Jeff

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[kaht]

Why, oh why did we ever let the Americans change everything

Cause you Brits were doing it wrong the whole time

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[BabyJeffy]

It wouldn't have been so bad if we'd all moved to yyyy/mm/dd - at least then a "view by name" sort in a directory would handle dates nicely. I guess they weren't worrying too much about that back when they sailed to the US - short sighted decision if you ask me

Cheers,
Jeff

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