I just find out about the power of date js, And its great!!!
As I am a newbie I was wondering if there is any kind of general validitation for different types of full dates.
eg.
var d1 = Date.parse('2000-10-18, 10:06 AM');
alert(d1.toString('HH:mm'));
If date is ('200-10-18, 10:06 AM'), of course it doesn't like it.
So my question is if there is any quick way to validate the full date, rather than having to validate one by one.
Thanks.
Here I am answering your question again.
To validate a date, you can simply call:
var d1 = "200-10-18, 10:06 AM";
Date.validateDay(d1);
And it will tell you if the date is valid.
EDIT
Or, you can simply do this:
var d = Date.parseExact("2008-03-08", "yyyy-MM-dd");
if (d !== null) {
alert('Date = ' + d.toString('MMMM dd, yyyy'));
}
Using parseExact will return null in case the date is not valid.
Date.parse
will parse date and time together if that's what you mean. But it doesn't like AM/PM, so you would need to convert your hour to 24 hour time.
I suggest, if you know it ends in AM or PM, just stripping that off, and if it's AM, you're fine. If it's PM, add 60 * 60 * 12 * 1000 back to the result to get your 12 hours back. (seconds * minutes * hours * milliseconds).
Try again with: var d1 = Date.parse('2000-10-18, 10:06');
Also, if you want to be sure the date is valid, parse will return NaN (not a number) if the input is invalid. But you can pretty much enter any date/time within a few thousand years, I believe. It will only start throwing NaN when you try to either parse a date with some screwed up syntax (like using a dash for one part and a slash for another) or if you try Date.parse("bananasandwitch")
.