Validate two dates of this “dd-MMM-yyyy” format in javascript

Question

I have two dates 18-Aug-2010 and 19-Aug-2010 of this format. How to find whether which date is greater?

Answer 1

Update: IE10, FX30 (and likely more) will understand "18 Aug 2010" without the dashes - Chrome handles either

so Date.parse("18-Aug-2010".replace("/-/g," ")) works in these browsers (and more)

Live Demo

Hence

function compareDates(str1,str2) {
  var d1 = Date.parse(str1.replace("/-/g," ")),
      d2 = Date.parse(str2.replace("/-/g," "));
  return d1