[Javascript] European Date Formatting?

[Paul McGuire]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Milo" <ShawnMilo at runbox.com>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] European Date Formatting?


At the top of your function:

usDate = euDate.replace(/^(\d+)\/(\d+)\/(\d+)$/, '$2/$1/$3');

Shawn



> Hi ALL,
>
> I need to work out the number of days between two dates. However if I pass
> 01/02/02 into the below script it insists on working out a difference
using
> the date 2nd Jan 02 but as far as I am concerned (and millions of others)
> the above date is infact 1st Feb 02. I have tried
laterdate.toLocaleString()
> but this does not seem to have any effect whatsoever. How am I meant to
> force JavaScript to accept European formatted dates?
>
> My Code:
>
> var difference = laterdate.getTime() - earlierdate.getTime();
>
>     var daysDifference = Math.floor(difference/1000/60/60/24);
>     difference -= daysDifference*1000*60*60*24
>     var hoursDifference = Math.floor(difference/1000/60/60);
>     difference -= hoursDifference*1000*60*60
>     var minutesDifference = Math.floor(difference/1000/60);
>     difference -= minutesDifference*1000*60
>     var secondsDifference = Math.floor(difference/1000);
>
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