Date issue in Firefox

Question

I want to parse date in my page to Javascript's Date.

So I have this in my page

<span>01-07-2012 01:04 PM</span>

And I have Javascript code that parses this value to date

var tagText = $(this).html();
var givenDate = new Date(tagText);
alert(givenDate);

And here is what I get in different browsers

IE:

Sat Jan 7 13:04:00 UTC+0400 2012

Chrome:

Sat Jan 07 2012 13:04:00 GMT +0400 (Caucasus Standard Time)

Firefox:

Invalid Date

Why Firefox doesn't recognize my date? What I must change to make it work with all major browsers?

Here is jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/mgER5/1/

what version of firefox are you using? this works fine in the new version — redmoon7777, Jan 12 '12 at 07:14
I just tested it on 9.0.1 and it works. result: "Sat Jan 07 2012 13:04:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)" — redmoon7777, Jan 12 '12 at 07:27
no I tested with the one you provided earlier, wait a sec I'll test with this one — redmoon7777, Jan 12 '12 at 07:29
I can't change that format, because that part is generated automatically. With "/" it works, I know. — Chuck Norris, Jan 12 '12 at 07:31

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '12 at 07:32

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try this:

var tagText = $(this).html();
tagText = tagText.replace(/-/g, '/');
var givenDate = new Date(tagText);
alert(givenDate);

answered Jan 12 '12 at 07:32

redmoon7777

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Are you sure that will work with different regional settings in the client's computer? – Chuck Norris Jan 12 '12 at 14:29
what do you mean exactly? this will work with dates like 01-07-2012 .... and those like 01/07/2012 .... – redmoon7777 Jan 12 '12 at 19:04
plus you and I are in different regions (I'm in GMT-5 and you are in GMT+4) and it works for both of us ;) – redmoon7777 Jan 12 '12 at 19:05
I mean, if you change your Regional settings from Control Panel in your PC(change date format to yyyy-dd-mm from yyyy/dd/mm for example), is there any scenario to have that issue again? – Chuck Norris Jan 12 '12 at 19:45
no, it will work. the only problem was the '-' that firefox doesn't read correctly so changing them to '/' did the trick – redmoon7777 Jan 12 '12 at 20:26
Perfect solution, Thank you @redmoon7777 – WEshruth May 24 '18 at 10:51

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 07 '21 at 06:01

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As explained in the documentation the string you are passing to the constructor of the Date object should be:

String value representing a date. The string should be in a format recognized by the parse method (IETF-compliant RFC 1123 timestamps).

Basically it should represent an RFC822 or ISO 8601 date.

edited Oct 07 '21 at 06:01

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answered Jan 12 '12 at 07:22

Darin Dimitrov

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 04 '13 at 15:05

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If you really want full cross-browser support for any date format, you should take a look at moment.js. It allows you to be explicit about the input format. For example:

var m = moment('01-07-2012 01:04 PM', 'DD-MM-YYYY  hh:mm a');

answered Jun 04 '13 at 15:05

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 12 '12 at 07:23

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What I must change to make it work with all major browsers?

Write it in milliseconds.

answered Jan 12 '12 at 07:23

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