tag:thewebfellas.com,2011:/blog/2008/9/13/making-a-date-with-javascript-and-json/comments Mephisto Noh-Varr 2010-11-11T20:52:01Z Jase tag:thewebfellas.com,2008-09-13:1802:20664 2010-11-11T16:42:08Z 2010-11-11T16:42:08Z <p>date.js is clearly slick for lots of purposes, but it's overkill if you just need to convert a date from Rails JSON output to a JS Date object.</p> <p>For a date in the format '2010-11-05T19:53:22-04:00':</p> <pre><code class="javascript">date_string = '2010-11-05T19:53:22-04:00'; x = date_string.match(/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})/)); var d = new Date(x[1],x[2],x[3],x[4],x[5],x[6]);</code></pre> <p>(Yes, I'm ignoring timezone -- all my dates are local time.)</p> <p>date.js would handle this nicely, but it's an extra 25kb for your users to download.</p> Joe Ellis tag:thewebfellas.com,2008-09-13:1802:3146 2009-02-26T01:24:10Z 2009-02-26T01:24:10Z <p>I was just searching for something to easily parse JSON as well as a strftime function. This helped out a lot, thanks! They really should update their site a little though, I imagine most people visiting would lose interest after noticing the Alpha-1 part.</p>