ZipGrep is a utility that can list and search zip (.war, .ear, .jar, etc) archives for text patterns, without the need to extract the archive's contents.
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dateParts = "dd/mm/yy".split("/");
var date = new Date(dateParts[2], parseInt(dateParts[1]) - 1, dateParts[0]);
or
var date = Date.parse("dd/mm/yy");
or
dateParts = "dd/mm/yy".split("/");
var dateStamp = Date.UTC(dateParts[2], parseInt(dateParts[1]) - 1, dateParts[0]);
that last one converts it to a unix time stamp that you can use in the date methods.