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

Older Internet Explorer versions (and apparently your version of Safari) won't parse a yyyy-mm-dd string, such as new Date('2012-12-31').

Another option is jQuery.datepicker.parseDate(), although that may be a bit overkill.