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Globalize.js allows you to parse a date string based on the current culture applied



var date = Globalize.parseDate(17/07/2013); //Wed Jul 17 00:00:00 PDT 2013


What I would like to do is parse a DateTime. The javascript Date object handles this, I'm surprised the Globalize.js library doesn't.



var date = new Date(07/17/2013 11:55 pm); //Wed Jul 17 23:55:00 PDT 2013
var date = Globalize.parseDate(07/17/2013 11:55 pm); //null


Am I missing something? I'm leaning towards parsing the time portion myself. Is there another library that extends Globalize.js that provides this kind of functionality? I've looked around but haven't found much.



UPDATE w/ accepted answer



You can parse the date if you know the format that the date is in.



    var date = Globalize.parseDate(17/07/2013 11:55 pm, MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt); 
//date = null


In my example the date will be null because it expects the time period to be in the format of a.m or p.m.. Once I changed that I was able to parse a datetime.



   var date = Globalize.parseDate(17/07/2013 11:55 p.m., MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt); 
//date = Wed Jul 17 23:55:00 PDT 2013


Note: This is only applicable to the deprecated Globalize 0.x.



Note 2: Passing a hardcoded pattern is NOT an i18n recommendation.


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If you know the pattern you are using:



var date = Globalize.parseDate(07/17/2013 11:55 pm, MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt);


If you don't know the pattern:



var date = Globalize.parseDate(07/17/2013 11:55 pm, Globalize.culture().calendar.patterns.d +   + Globalize.culture().calendar.patterns.t)


The line above is assuming current culture, if you need it for other culture or if you haven't established the local culture by calling Globalize.culture() then just specify the culture on culture().



I just ran on this scenario a few minutes ago, and found this solution, the latest it is messy, I hope there is a cleaner way to do this.



Note: This is only applicable to the deprecated Globalize 0.x.



Note 2: Passing a hardcoded pattern is NOT an i18n recommendation.


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