[thelist] [JS] isDate function

[Scott Brady]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:49:49 -0500, Joshua Olson  wrote:
> After searching the web for isDate functions I found myself unhappy with
> most of them.  Too long, too tedious, etc.  So, I made my own to parse
> normal US formatted dates (MM/DD/YYYY).  Can anybody spot a reason why the
> following code wouldn't work?

I don't see why that wouldn't work, but is there a reason you can't
just do this:

function isDate(str)
{
     var myDate = new Date(str);

     return !isNaN(myDate);
}

(I'm not sure about older browsers on that, but it should work for 
21st Century browsers, at least)

Scott

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