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Date parsing in javascript is different between safari and chrome

Asked 2011-06-21T14:44:07.353
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I have the following code

var c = new Date(Date.parse("2011-06-21T14:27:28.593Z"));
console.log(c);

On Chrome it correctly prints out the date on the console. In Safari it fails. Who is correct and more importantly what is the best way to handle this?

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I tend to avoid Date.parse, as per the other answers for this question. It doesn't seem to be a portable way to reliably deal with dates.

Instead, I have used something like the function below. This uses jQuery to map the string array into a number array, but that's a pretty easy dependency to remove / change. I also include what I consider sensible defaults, to allow you to parse 2007-01-09 and 2007-01-09T09:42:00 using the same function.

function dateFromString(str) {
  var a = $.map(str.split(/[^0-9]/), function(s) { return parseInt(s, 10) });
  return new Date(a[0], a[1]-1 || 0, a[2] || 1, a[3] || 0, a[4] || 0, a[5] || 0, a[6] || 0);
}
answered 2012-02-23T12:38:11.593

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