How can I get actual date in this format?

Question

I want to compare the actual date to a format like this that I'm receiving from a server: item.expires_date.slice "2016-11-28 22:10:57 Etc/GMT"

In javascript how could this be possible? specially for the part Etc/GMT

In the case I just wanted to compare 2016-11-28 how can I achieve this:

 var today = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);

     if(item.expires_date.slice(0, 10) > today) {
 console.log("This item have expired");

     } else {

       console.log("this item has not expired" );
     }

       }

it does not work because it brings to item has not expired comparing dates: 2016-11-28 - 2016-12-28 Thanks!

Answer 1

Since "Etc/GMT" is the same as "GMT+00:00", you can remove it and create a Date object from the string:

 var s = "2016-11-28 22:10:57 Etc/GMT"; var d = new Date(Date.parse(s.replace("Etc/", ""))); console.log(d.toString()); 

Then you can compare d to the current date.