Parse RSS pubDate to Date object in JavaScript

Question

How can I do it?

Tue, Feb 2 2010 19:34:21 Etc / GMT

Answer 1

It works right out of the box. You can set a Date object in JavaScript by passing several standard time formats. The format used in RSS is one of them.

Example:

var pubDate = "Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:17:21 +0100"; var date = new Date(pubDate); var months = Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"); var string = date.getDate() + " " + months[date.getMonth()] + " " + date.getFullYear() alert(string);