Best JavaScript Date Parser & Formatter?

Question

Since I've started to use jQuery, I have been doing a lot more JavaScript development.

I have the need to parse different date formats and then to display them into another format.

Do you know of any good tool to do this?

Which one would you recommend?

Answer 1

A good library for parsing dates is this. Do you know the format of the dates before hand though, or are they user input?

Answer 2

Ext.Date. It uses the same formatting codes as PHP's date() function, but it also lets you parse in a specific format (which PHP doesn't do).

Answer 3

Take a look to this very good article: JavaScript date formatting benchmarks

Answer 4

Just another option (which I wrote - full disclosure):

DP_DateExtensions Library

Supports date/time formatting, date math (add/subtract date parts), date compare, date parsing, etc. It's liberally open sourced.

I really like Date.js but find some of the syntax cumbersome. Most of the functions in mine are based (at least in part) on the rich set of fuctions in CFML - some people may find it a bit more comfortable.

No reason to consider it if you're already using a framework (they're all capable), but if you just need to quickly add date manipulation to a project give it a chance.