How Do I compare 2 date formats in javascript

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if (reportDate >= payStartDate && reportDate <= payEndDate)

reporteddate is in the format of "mm/dd/yyyy" and startdate and enddate are in the format of
Sat Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2013 . Because of this I couldn't compare both dates. Can I please know how to compare these 2 different date formats?

Posted 4-May-14 6:37am

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Updated 4-May-14 6:51am

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[no name] 4-May-14 12:51pm

You are going to need to parse the datetime variable to a common format.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 4-May-14 12:59pm

reportDate, payStartDate and payEndDate are Date objects or strings?

Member 10793987 4-May-14 13:04pm

date objects

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2014-05-04T07:09:00

Solution 2

As all your variables are already Date object you can simply compare them. The original format of the string from which the Date object was created does not matter anymore...

Posted 4-May-14 7:09am

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Manas Bhardwaj · Answer 2 · 2014-05-04T07:01:00

Solution 1

There is no in-built date conversion format in JavaScript, but you can use Moment.js (a third-party) library. It's quite flexible.

http://momentjs.com/[^]

Posted 4-May-14 7:01am

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Updated 4-May-14 7:38am

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Nitij · Answer 3 · 2014-05-04T07:25:00

You can parse date strings in JavaScript using the inbuilt Date object.

You can easily find date parsing JavaScript functions with a little googling. However I am saving your time by giving you the following code:

C#

//returns meaningful date format
function getDate(rawDate) {
    rawDate = new Date(Date.parse(rawDate));
    var month = rawDate.getMonth(),
        day = rawDate.getDate(),
        year = rawDate.getFullYear();
    return month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
}
console.log(getDate('Sat Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2013'));