Comments on: JavaScript date parsing and formatting, Part 1

By: Clarence Fredericks

Clarence Fredericks — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:34:26 +0000

As far as parsing a date, I would simply use the date object constructor. On the other hand, I came across a brand new JavaScript library called jPaq which provides a function that closely emulates PHP’s date function. Documentation for this function can be found here: http://jpaq.org/documentation/Date.prototype.format%28%29/1.0/. The best thing about the library is the fact that you can download your own build which contains only the code that you will need.

By: Jaxon

Jaxon — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:31:25 +0000

I’ve started using this library for date formatting:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/fIsForFormat

(I don’t know why they have it as a jQuery plugin – it isn’t!)

It has some really neat features and actually works well in tandem with Xaprb’s parser.

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:24:47 +0000

This project’s new home page is at http://code.google.com/p/flexible-js-formatting/

By: tracker1

tracker1 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:31:48 +0000

Hmm, the regexp didn’t come out right there… replaced the plus signs. (grr) the \.\d should have a plus sign after it not a literal space… there is also a missing plus elsewhere… if you email me, I will send you it in text.

By: tracker1

tracker1 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:29:58 +0000

I pre-pended the following inside your Date.parseDate function, so I could account for dates that come from my database as a string, as well as getting a Date() object back from the generic Date.parse when there is no format… since Date.parse returns a TIME_T value, instead of a Date() object…

//check for DB ISO-Style DateTime first…
var isoDate = /(\d{4}\-\d{2}\-\d{2}(|(T| )\d{2}\:\d{2}\:\d{2}(|\.\d )(|(| )(|\-|\ )(|\d{2}(\:|)\d{2}))))/i
if (isoDate.test(input))
return new Date(input.replace(/-/,”/”).replace(/-/,”/”).replace(/[TZ]/,” “).replace(/(\.\d )/,” “));
else if (!(format))
return new Date(Date.parse(input));