alert(new Date("8/14/2012 4:24:34 PM"));
Tue Aug 14 2012 16:24:34 GMT+0800 (Malay Peninsula Standard Time)


alert(new Date("14/08/2012 4:31:29 PM"));
Invalid Date

I tried date.parseExact from datejs, it doesn't work.

Is there any other way to cast "14/08/2012 4:31:29 PM" to a Date object?

alert(new Date("8/14/2012 4:24:34 PM"));
Tue Aug 14 2012 16:24:34 GMT+0800 (Malay Peninsula Standard Time)


alert(new Date("14/08/2012 4:31:29 PM"));
Invalid Date

I tried date.parseExact from datejs, it doesn't work.

Is there any other way to cast "14/08/2012 4:31:29 PM" to a Date object?

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• "I tried date.parseExact from datejs" - what arguments did you use? Show use the code for this as well – Eric Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 8:42
• date.parseExact("14/08/2012 4:31:29 PM", "dd/MM/yyyy h:mm:ss tt"); – Jerry Lam Commented Aug 14, 2012 at 8:48

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How about a quick swap using a regular expression?

alert(new Date("14/08/2012 4:31:29 PM".replace(/^(\d+)\/(\d+)/,'$2/$1')));

Rather than Date.parseExact have you tried using Date.parse function provided by the datejs library like so

Date.parse("14/08/2012 4:31:29 PM")