Date Parsing
Kendo UI exposes methods which convert a specified string to aDateobject by using the culture-specific settings.
Parsing without Specifying Formats
Thekendo.parseDate(string)method converts a string to a JavaScriptDateobject taking into account the set of default culture formats.
//current culture is "en-US" kendo.parseDate("12/22/2000"); //Fri Dec 22 2000Parsing by Specifying Formats
Thekendo.parseDate(string, format)method converts a string to a JavaScript Date object taking into account the specified formats.
kendo.parseDate("2000/12/22", "yyyy/MM/dd"); kendo.parseDate("2000/12/22", ["MM/dd/yyyy", "yyyy/MM/dd"]);Parsing by Specifying Format and Culture Names
Thekendo.parseDate(string, format, cultureName)method converts a string to a JavaScriptDateobject by taking into account the specified formats and culture.
kendo.parseDate("2012.07.16", "yyyy/MM/dd", "de-DE"); kendo.parseDate("2012.07.16", ["MM/dd/yyyy", "yyyy/MM/dd"], "de-DE");
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kendo.parseDate()parses strings by incrementally matching an increasing portion of the date string until it satisfies the current corresponding format part. This may lead to unexpected results when parsing ambiguous date strings with no delimiters. For example, the parsing of222015with adMyyyyformat fails, because"22"is matched asdand there is no suitable string part left for the month.- In addition, parsing is permissive and ignores invalid strings which occur after the year.
Parsing by Exactly Matching the Format
Thekendo.parseExactDate(string, formats)method will parse a string as a date. If the string does not match the format exactly the method will returnnull.
kendo.parseExactDate("3/4/2013", "MM/dd/yyyy") // Outputs "Mon Mar 04 2013 00:00:00". kendo.parseExactDate("3/4/2013", "MM/dd/yy") // Outputs "null".Parsing UTC Date Strings
When parsing UTC date strings without providing a format string, the resulting JavaScriptDateobject renders the time according to the local time zone of the user.
kendo.parseDate("2016-02-14T06:15:44.123Z"); // Sun Feb 14 2016 08:15:44 GMT+0200 (FLE Standard Time)When you use formats for parsing UTC date strings, apply thezzzspecifier to render the local time. Otherwise, the current browser timezone offset will apply.
kendo.parseDate("2016-08-09T05:28:46Z", "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:sszzz") // Tue Aug 09 2016 08:28:46 GMT+0300 (FLE Daylight Time)