[dojo-contributors] How to construct Date object from string?

[LiuCougar]

On 6/29/06, Kun Xi <bookstack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I checked the Ticket #1008, "dropdowndatepicker can't handle other
> date formats" in the trac, and find the problem is caused by
> DropdownDatePicker.js, Ln 47:
>
>                 onInputChange: function(){
> Ln:47           var tmp = new Date(this.inputNode.value);
>                         this.datePicker.date = tmp;
>                         this.datePicker.setDate(dojo.widget.DatePicker.util.toRfcDate(tmp));
>                         this.datePicker.initData();
>                         this.datePicker.initUI();
>                 }
> Here, the tmp is constructed from the input field regardless the input
> format, it is might be easier to fix this bug, if the following
> function is supported:
>
> var tmp = new Date( this.inputNode.value, this.dateFormat );
javascript 1.5/1.6 does not support this

> Any idea to construct a Date object based upon input and format ?
You need to parse the input string yourself and feed that to Data

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