JavaScript Date ISO8601

Question

What is the best way to get a Javascript Date object from a string like the following one:

2011-06-02T09:34:29+02:00 ?

I have trouble with the

Answer 1

If your string is an ISO8601 string, you can just pass it into the Date constructor and get a Date object back out:

var date = new Date('2011-06-02T09:34:29+02:00');

According to http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/09/21/date-from-iso-8601-string/ though, this might have issues in IE and other platforms. It recommends you do something like this for compatibility:

function dateFromISO8601(isostr) {
    var parts = isostr.match(/\d+/g);
    return new Date(parts[0], parts[1] – 1, parts[2], parts[3], parts[4], parts[5]);
}

var myDate = dateFromISO8601("2011-06-02T09:34:29+02:00");
console.log(myDate);