Convert String to DateTime Javascript

Question

I have got a problem in displaying PHP formatted date/time string into a customized format in JavaScript.

The date/time string looks like Monday 21st September 2020

Anyone who knows how to simply handle this?

Answer 1

This is what I came up with - WITHOUT LIBRARIES:

 var dateString = "Monday 21st September 2020"; var dayOfMonth, month, year; [, dayOfMonth, month, year] = dateString.split(" "); var date = new Date([dayOfMonth.match(/\\d*/)[0], month, year]); console.log("date:\\n" + date);

The idea is to split the date string into it's 4 parts using destructor, and ignoring the first (day of week).
Extracting the digits from the day of month (with st/nd/rd/th) with regex.
Putting things back into a new Date.

And as a function:

 function dateStringToDate(dateString) { var dayOfMonth, month, year; [, dayOfMonth, month, year] = dateString.split(" "); return new Date([dayOfMonth.match(/\\d*/)[0], month, year]); } var dates = [ "Monday 21st September 2020", "Erich_Kästner 35th May 1931", "Someday 2nd October 1967" ]; for(var d = 0; d < dates.length; d++) { console.log(dates[d]+":\\n" + dateStringToDate(dates[d])); }

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