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Have a look here..<br />
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<a href="http://www.javascriptmall.com/jsc/jsC4Udate.htm" rel="ugc">http://www.javascriptmall.com/jsc/jsC4Udate.htm</a>&nbsp;<br />

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that is describing how to get todays date in a certain format, i need to deal with the date in the format i have?
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You can use the parse method , before manupuylating the date
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parse isnt working becuase it isnt looking at the string as a date because of the format of the date in the string
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I have a date as a string in this format:<br />
10-Mar-2009<br />
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Javascript doesnt seem to be able to gettime() of that.<br />
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Is there a workaround for this?
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I have a date as a string in this format:
10-Mar-2009

Javascript doesnt seem to be able to gettime() of that.

Is there a workaround for this?

Have a look here..
 
http://www.javascriptmall.com/jsc/jsC4Udate.htm 


that is describing how to get todays date in a certain format, i need to deal with the date in the format i have?

You can use the parse method , before manupuylating the date

parse isnt working becuase it isnt looking at the string as a date because of the format of the date in the string

using gettime on 10-Mar-2009 date format

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