Simplest way to parse a Date in Javascript

Question

I want to parse a Date chosen by user:

var ds = \"11 / 08 / 2009\";

I use

var d = new Date(ds);

It gives

Answer 1

I have had success with DateJS. In particular, you would want to use parseExact, which allows you to provide a format string describing the meaning of each segment (so that you can map one segment to day and another to month).