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

There are several questions on stackoverflow.com that address this issue. I gave a rather thorough explanation here if anyone reading this is interested in the browser-to-browser details.

The bottom line though is, for now at least, you should either avoid the ISO 8601 format all together or ALWAYS include a timezone specifier when using it. And, never use the 'YYYY-MM-dd' format because it gets interpreted as a short version of ISO 8601 without a time zone specifier.