Parse RSS pubDate to Date object in JavaScript

date, javascript, object, parsing, rss

Solution

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

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);

Problem

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