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Date.parse polyfill (no timezone support)
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annotated.js
// Polyfill for Date.parse
Date.parse = Date.parse || function(
a // ISO Date string
){
// turn into array, cutting the first character of the Month
a = a.split(/\W\D?/);
// create a new date object
return new Date(
// year
a[3],
// month (starting with zero)
// we got only the second and third character, so we find it in a string
// Jan => an => 0, Feb => eb => 1, ...
"anebarprayunulugepctovec".search(a[1]) / 2,
// day
a[2],
// hour
a[4],
// minute
a[5],
// second
a[6]
)
}
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index.js
Date.parse=Date.parse||function(a){a=a.split(/\W\D?/);return new Date(a[3],"anebarprayunulugepctovec".search(a[1])/2,a[2],a[4],a[5],a[6])}
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LICENSE.txt
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2011 Alex Kloss <alexthkloss@web.de>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
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package.json
{
"name": "parsedate",
"description": "Date.parse replacement",
"keywords": [
"Date",
"parse"
]
}
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test.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>Foo</title>
<div>Expected value: <b>Thu Mar 22 2007 12:56:06...</b></div>
<div>Actual value: <b id="ret"></b></div>
<script>
var myFunction = Date.parse=Date.parse||function(a){a=a.split(/\W\D?/);return new Date(a[3],"anebarprayunulugepctovec".search(a[1])/2,a[2],a[4],a[5],a[6])}
document.getElementById( "ret" ).innerHTML = myFunction(''+new Date(2007,2,22,12,56,6));
</script>
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jdalton commented Aug 21, 2011

Date.parse has been around since ES1 making a fallback seems a bit out of place. Also the workings of ES5/5.1 Date.parse are a bit too complex to fit in 140bytes.

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