Parse DateTime using Javascript

[alirezaok]

as you know the parse() method takes a date string and returns the number of milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970.

<script type="text/javascript">
var d = Date.parse("Jul 8, 2005");
document.write(d);
</script>

The output of the code above will be:
1120773600000

but my date format is like to 2008-12-20T09:46:01Z.

i want to Date.parse("2008-12-20T09:46:01Z")

it returns error.

how do i solve this?

[bradgrafelman]

What exactly do the "T" and "Z" represent?

EDIT: Here's my guess at it; might be a bit clunky as there are no guarantees that this is the best way to go about doing it:

<script type="text/javascript">
var d_str = "2008-12-20T09:46:01Z";
bound = d_str.indexOf('T');

d_date = d_str.slice(0, bound).split('-');
d_time = d_str.slice(bound+1, -1).split(':');

document.write(Date.UTC(d_date[0],d_date[1]-1,d_date[2],d_time[0],d_time[1],d_time[2]));
</script>

[Weedpacket]

bradgrafelman wrote:

What exactly do the "T" and "Z" represent?

That's ISO8601 standard (why, I don't know; why the Date object doesn't recognise it, ditto).

Of course, you could use split() to separate the date from the time as well.

[Weedpacket]

bradgrafelman wrote:

What exactly do the "T" and "Z" represent?

That's ISO8601 standard (why, I don't know; why the Date object doesn't recognise it, ditto).

Of course, you could use split() to separate the date from the time as well.

[alirezaok]

This date and time created with php for RSS page. like this:
$date=strftime( "&#37;a, %d %b %Y %T %Z" , $sql->date);

%T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
%Z or %z - time zone offset or name or abbreviation (Operating System dependent)