Inconsistant date parsing with missing timezone

Question

In doing some testing I\'ve found inconsistant behavior between browsers with the following javascript

new Date(\"2013-09-10T08:00:00\").toString()
         


        

Answer 1

Standards clash. ISO 8601 states that:

If no UTC relation information is given with a time representation, the time is assumed to be in local time.

ECMA says:

The value of an absent time zone offset is “Z”.

Mozilla devs think that ISO takes precedence, Chrome folks seem to disagree.

The current draft of ES6 says (under 20.3.1.15):

If the time zone offset is absent, the date-time is interpreted as a local time.

so Mozilla's implementation is (will be) correct.