How do you parse a date from an HTML5 date input?

Question

I have an input on my webpage that I am able to set the date on by getting an ISO string and pulling out the first 10 characters.

date = new Date();
dateInpu         


        

Answer 1

You can also convert the input string from YYYY-MM-DD to MM/DD/YYYY and it then parse the date to get the correct answer.

EXAMPLE:

Don't use:

new Date(Date.parse('2018-09-28')) // Thu Sep 27 2018 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

Rather use

new Date(Date.parse('09/28/2018')) // Fri Sep 28 2018 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

(NOTE: I am in CDT)

Tested in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, old Edge, and IE.