I've had a look through some of the suggestions in similar answers here but I can't find much that helps me.
Say I have a string that contains a date and a number: 2014-06-24 00:00:00
How would I parse it in a way that I can return this: 2014-06-24 00:00:00 Tuesday
Using date.parse as such:
new Date(Date.parse('2014-06-24 00:00:00'))
gives me the following result:
Tue Jun 24 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
Use methods getDay(),getDate() etc. to extract fields and format resulting string.
There are several JS sprintf implementations: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3932473/2053898 https://github.com/alexei/sprintf.js
html
<div id="demo"></div>
js
//var a = new Date();
var a = new Date(Date.parse('2014-06-24 00:00:00'))
var days = ["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"];
year = a.getFullYear()
month = a.getMonth()
date = a.getDate()
hour = a.getHours()
minutes = a.getMinutes()
seconds = a.getSeconds()
day = a.getDay()
alert(year + "-" + month+ "-" + date + " " + hour + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds + " " + days[a.getDay()])
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = year + "-" + month+ "-" + date + " " + hour + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds + " " + days[a.getDay()]
you can check the demo here
http://momentjs.com is a great, powerful library for easy date manipulation. Worth using if you're doing a lot of it. To get 2014-06-24 00:00:00 Tuesday you could do (after linking in the library, of course).
var m = moment("2014-06-24T00:00:00");
var output = m.format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss dddd');
But, really, check out the docs, because this is just the tip of the iceberg: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string-format/