new Date() is working in Chrome but not Firefox

Question

I am creating a datetime string that looks like this : 2010-07-15 11:54:21

And with the following code I get invalid date in firefox but works just fine in chrome

var todayDateTime = year + '-' + month + '-' + day + ' ' + hour + ':' + minute + ':' + seconds;
var date1 = new Date(todayDateTime);

In firefox date1 is giving me an invalid date, but in chrome its working just fine what would the main cause be?

Appreciate the help in advanced. Thanks

Answer 1

You can't instantiate a date object any way you want. It has to be in a specific way. Here are some valid examples:

new Date() // current date and time
new Date(milliseconds) //milliseconds since 1970/01/01
new Date(dateString)
new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)

or

d1 = new Date("October 13, 1975 11:13:00")
d2 = new Date(79,5,24)
d3 = new Date(79,5,24,11,33,0)

Chrome must just be more flexible.

Source: http://w3schools.com/jS/js_obj_date.asp