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javascript: how to parse a date string

rated 0 times [ 173] [ 5] / answers: 1 / hits: 28540 / 14 Years ago, thu, january 13, 2011, 12:00:00

The format is:
MMDDHHMM

I want to take month, day, hour, minute individually, how to do that?

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answered 14 Years ago devonw · Accepted Answer

var dateString = '13011948';

The length of the text is fixed and always at the same position. Then you can just use substr to cut them into parts and use parseInt to convert them to number.

var month = parseInt(dateString.substr(0, 2), 10),

      day = parseInt(dateString.substr(2, 2), 10),

     hour = parseInt(dateString.substr(4, 2), 10),

   minute = parseInt(dateString.substr(6, 2), 10);

Or instead, put it in a single date object.

var date = new Date();

date.setMonth   (parseInt(dateString.substr(0, 2), 10) - 1);

date.setDate    (parseInt(dateString.substr(2, 2), 10));

date.setHours   (parseInt(dateString.substr(4, 2), 10));

date.setMinutes (parseInt(dateString.substr(6, 2), 10));