Safari Javascript Date() NaN Issue (yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss)
javascript, jquery
Solution
To make your question easier your problem is with:
new Date('2014-02-18 15:00:48')
This work okay in chrome but not in safari. The mdn talks about ECMAScript 5 ISO-8601 format support says:
Alternatively, the date/time string may be in ISO 8601 format. For example, "2011-10-10" (just date) or "2011-10-10T14:48:00" (date and time) can be passed and parsed.
If you include `T` it works:
new Date('2014-02-18T15:00:48')
You can use `new Date('2014-02-18T15:00:48'.replace(/\s/, 'T'))`.
If you handle a lot of cases like this I will recommend using moment which seems to handle this case very well with or without T: parsing from string. Additionally your whole example is easier with momentjs:
var minutes = moment().diff("2014-02-18 15:00:48", 'minutes');
Problem
My code is working properly in Google Chrome, but not in Safari. I figured out that I need to convert `yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss` to `ISO 8601`, but I didn't found a solution to do this. Online Test Link: http://jsfiddle.net/UVgHR/ Javascript: ``` $(document).ready(function() { calculateMinutes(); setInterval(calculateMinutes, 60000); }); function calculateMinutes() { $('.calculateMinutes').each(function () { var diff = Math.abs(new Date( $(this).data('timestamp') ) - new Date()); var minutes = Math.floor((diff/1000)/60); $(this).html( minutes + ' min.' ); }); } ``` HTML Example: ``` <span class="calculateMinutes" data-timestamp="2014-02-18 15:00:48"> ```