IE JavaScript date parsing error

Question

Why cannot IE parse this string as a Date object.

var d = Date.parse(\"Fri Jun 11 04:55:12 +0000 2010\"); // returns NaN

However, it works

Answer 1

I've found the jQuery Globalization Plugin date parsing to work best. Other methods had cross-browser issues and stuff like date.js had not been updated in quite a while.

You also don't need a datePicker on the page. You can just call something similar to the example given in the docs:

$.datepicker.parseDate('yy-mm-dd', '2007-01-26');