jquery date formatting, different for each browser?

Question

I am calculating the date using the number of seconds since epoch at UTC.

here is how I am currently doing it:

var LastUpdatedTime = data.LastUpdated;
myDate = new Date(1000 * LastUpdatedTime);                                  
var LastUpdatedTime = myDate.toLocaleString();

In Chrome i see: 2/26/2013 9:57:35 AM

Which is exactly what I want

In Safari I see: February 26, 2013 9:27:34 AM EST

Any advice on how to get Safari to format the date the same way Chrome does?

Build the string by hand. `toLocaleString()` does just what it says--it formats the string according to the user's locale (and apparently Safari uses a different locale) so you can't predict what its output will be. — JJJ, Feb 26 '13 at 15:04
please see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6427204/date-parsing-in-javascript-is-different-between-safari-and-chrome — topcat3, Feb 26 '13 at 15:04
you could try using this library http://zetafleet.com/blog/javascript-dateparse-for-iso-8601 with new Date. May do what you require — topcat3, Feb 26 '13 at 15:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 15:28

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You can try Datejs

It gives you ways to nicely format days the way you want for example

   new Date().toString('dd/mm/yyyy hh:MM:ss')

answered Feb 26 '13 at 15:28

Davor Zlotrg

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 15:42

Browsers are free to implement Date's string output functions in any format they like. To achieve a consistent format across browsers you will have to either create your own formatting function or use a third-party library such as Datejs or date.format.js.

By the way, this has nothing to do with jQuery. The problem is that ECMAScript does not define a consistent date formatting mechanism.

jquery date formatting, different for each browser?

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