javascript date object issue in Safari and IE

Question

I am taking a date from a JSON object in the format of 2012-12-31 and trying to convert it into friendly values and output it.

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Answer 1

The yyyy-mm-dd (ISO 8601) date format is not supported in Safari and IE. It is part of ECMAscript 5 though, so it should be just a matter of time.

A solution would be to pass the date in as arguments to Date.

var date = "2012-12-31".split("-");
var your_date = new Date(date[0], date[1]-1, date[2]);

Note that month parameter starts at zero (for January), so you must subtract 1 from the value obtained from the string.

EDIT: For a shortcut see answer by joe larson below.