Imagine there are two labels on a webpage both displaying a date. How would you find out which is the greater date taking into account what the users locale is.
Say Label 1 : 04/11/2009 Label 2: 09/10/2009
If it were in the US Label 2 > Label 1
If it were the UK Label 1 > Label 2
The date constructor ignores locale information so var d = new Date('04/11/2009') will always be the 11th April 2009 rather than the 4th November 2009 no matter the locale. Does anyone know any tricks to get around this? Any libraries worth checking out?
(the only wayout i can see at the moment is get the locale info using js and then parse the label so i can create a date object with another constructor but this seems to much for a supposedly simple problem?Furthermore this is not going to work well with lots of locales)