Problem with Javascript Date function in IE 7, returns NaN

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I have a twitter feed and I create a new date obj so I can format the date to my liking.

var created = new Date(this.created_at) works in firefox and chrome but not in IE7. I seem to be having trouble passing the date through the new Date() function. It just returns undefined and NaN.

Here is the code. If you try to test it out don't forget to include jquery. Thank you.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Twitter Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" >

$(function(){
$.getJSON("http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/google.json?count=1&callback=?", function(data){
    $.each(data, function(){
        var created = new Date(this.created_at)
        $("<div></div>").append("<ul><li>Unformatted: " + this.created_at + "</li><li>Formatted: " + created + "</li></ul>").appendTo("body")
    });

})  

})

</script>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>
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3 Answers

I've found the jQuery Globalization Plugin date parsing to work best. Other methods had cross-browser issues and stuff like date.js had not been updated in quite a while.

You also don't need a datePicker on the page. You can just call something similar to the example given in the docs:

$.parseDate('yy-mm-dd', '2007-01-26');
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