The code: new Date('2011-12-15 00:00:00') is showing as NaN.
How can I convert this date? Any helps are appreciated.

My code is very straight forward. It works in Chrome but not in IE 9.

var dateText = new Date('2012-08-01 00:00:00'); 
alert(dateText.getDate().toString() + "/" + dateText.getMonth().toString() + "/" + dateText.getYear().toString());

The code: new Date('2011-12-15 00:00:00') is showing as NaN.
How can I convert this date? Any helps are appreciated.

My code is very straight forward. It works in Chrome but not in IE 9.

var dateText = new Date('2012-08-01 00:00:00'); 
alert(dateText.getDate().toString() + "/" + dateText.getMonth().toString() + "/" + dateText.getYear().toString());

• javascript
• date
• internet-explorer-9

Share Improve this question Follow edited Jun 11, 2013 at 17:04 Tiago Sippert 1,33077 gold badges2424 silver badges3333 bronze badges asked Aug 7, 2012 at 20:24 user007user007 1,73822 gold badges2424 silver badges6060 bronze badges 5

• 8 it's a date object, not a number, so if you're trying to cast it to int, it'll be NaN. But can't give a good answer without seeing a bit more of your code and what you're trying to do with it. Show us how you're getting NaN. – Spudley Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:26
• 1 In case it's related, there's a bug in Safari/iOS which prevents that format from working... stackoverflow./a/4310986/29 – Michael Haren Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:28
• 3 I works perfectly fine here: jsfiddle/jfriend00/RvAyu. There must be something else wrong with your code that you are not showing us. – jfriend00 Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 20:28
• The above code does not work in IE, works in Chrome. I am sorry for not mention that here. I am using IE 9 and my organization's default browser is IE 8 or 9. – user007 Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 21:13
• @Spudley My code is very straight forward. It works in Chrome but not in IE 9. var dateText = new Date('2012-08-01 00:00:00'); alert(dateText.getDate().toString() + "/" + dateText.getMonth().toString() + "/" + dateText.getYear().toString()); – user007 Commented Aug 7, 2012 at 21:17

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Add "T" to the date format. e.g:

new Date('2011-12-15T00:00:00')

After some search in web, realized that the stupid IE does not understand this date format. I do not know about Safari and Firefox, but certainly this works in Chrome.

Either I will have to use some javascript libraries like DateJS for doing this or will have to do some custom coding as below which I will never remend. Fortunately in my case, I am sure that I will be getting the dates in the YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS format.

var dateText = '2011-12-15 00:00:00';
alert(dateText.substring(5, 7) + "/" + dateText.substring(8, 10) + "/" + dateText.substring(0, 4));

The easy solution I tried Download date.js from http://datejs./ Include in your file then var date = Date.parse('1970-01-12 00:00:00'); var formattedDate = date.toString('yyyy-MM-dd');

It works like charm in Safari.