Format the date

[Yumby]

Hi all. I'm a javascript newbie and I'm stuck, so I've got some questions.

The first one is, I know you can store the date like this....

var mydate = new Date(2000, 11, 31);

But on the web page the person enters the date like this..... 31/12/2000. So is it possible to code it this way....

var mydate = new Date(31/12/2000);

I couldn't find anything on the internet, so maybe someone can offer some tips or help? Thanks.

[akhileshbc]

You could try the datejs library. Link: http://code.google.com/p/datejs/

It allows various parsing and formatting ways. Check the sample usage section for more details.

[xxarmoxx]

Are you getting the date as one string? If so, you can split by the char '/' and have your date in an array.

var date = "31/12/2000";
var date_array = date.split("/");

var day = date_array[0];
var month = date_array[1];
var year = date_array[2];

For more info: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_split.asp