Parse 'Date & Time' string in Javascript which are of custom format

Question

I have to parse a date and time string of format \"2015-01-16 22:15:00\". I want to parse this into JavaScript Date Object. Any help on this?

I tried some jquery plu

Answer 1

If you are sure it's in the desired format and don't need to error check, you can parse it manually using split (and optionally replace). I needed to do something similar in my project (MM/DD/YYYY HH:mm:ss:sss) and modified my solution to fit your format. Notice the subtraction of 1 in the month.

var str = "2015-01-16 22:15:00"; 
//Replace dashes and spaces with : and then split on :
var strDate = str.replace(/-/g,":").replace(/ /g,":").split(":");
var aDate = new Date(strDate[0], strDate[1]-1, strDate[2], strDate[3], strDate[4], strDate[5]) ;