I have a senario where i have to parse two dates for example start date and end date.

var startdate = '02/01/2011';
var enddate = '31/12/2011';

But if we alert start date

 alert(Date.Parse(startdate)); i will get 1296498600000

but if i alert enddate

 alert(Date.Parse(enddate)); i will get NaN

But this is working in other browsers except Chrome, But in other browsers

alert(Date.Parse(enddate)); i will get 1370889000000

Can anybody know a workaround for this?

I have a senario where i have to parse two dates for example start date and end date.

var startdate = '02/01/2011';
var enddate = '31/12/2011';

But if we alert start date

 alert(Date.Parse(startdate)); i will get 1296498600000

but if i alert enddate

 alert(Date.Parse(enddate)); i will get NaN

But this is working in other browsers except Chrome, But in other browsers

alert(Date.Parse(enddate)); i will get 1370889000000

Can anybody know a workaround for this?

• javascript
• jquery
• google-chrome

• 2 Unable to reproduce, works for me: jsfiddle.net/b77DE/1 – Darin Dimitrov Commented Nov 1, 2011 at 10:09
• Oh, and by the way the parse method expects the string to be formatted as RFC822 or ISO 8601 date. – Darin Dimitrov Commented Nov 1, 2011 at 10:13
• 4 It's culture related. I get NaN when I alert enddate – Emre Erkan Commented Nov 1, 2011 at 10:14
• 3 Date.parse (lowercase!). And Date format must be 'mm/dd/yyyy' for Date.parse! – Andrew D. Commented Nov 1, 2011 at 10:42
• 1 @kara:- As you said that this is culture specific issue then how come this works in other browsers except chrome? – Febin J S Commented Nov 1, 2011 at 11:08

2 Answers 2

If you want to parse a date without local differences, use the following, instead of Date.parse():

var enddate = '31/12/2011'; //DD/MM/YYYY
var split = enddate.split('/');
// Month is zero-indexed so subtract one from the month inside the constructor
var date = new Date(split[2], split[1] - 1, split[0]); //Y M D 
var timestamp = date.getTime();

See also: Date

According to this

dateString A string representing an RFC822 or ISO 8601 date.

I've tried your code and I also get NaN for the end date, but if i swap the date and month around, it works fine.