How can I determine whether a given string represents a date?

Question

Is there an isDate function in jQuery?

It should return true if the input is a date, and false otherwise.

Answer 1

Date.parse will prb sort you out, without the need for jquery:

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_parse.asp

Above removed after some kind soul pointed out how basic parseDate really is.

There is also a $.datepicker.parseDate( format, value, options ) utility function in the JQuery UI Datepicker plugin:

https://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/