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Is there any JavaScript library that takes Java's SimpleDateFormat pattern and parses a date/time string into a Date object?

For example, given "2010-12-20" and "yyyy-MM-dd", the function would parse "2010-12-20" and return a JavaScript Date.

I noticed that jQuery UI's Date Picker can format and parse a date string, but it doesn't work with a time string.

Thanks.

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This might be what you want: http://www.timdown.co.uk/code/simpledateformat.php

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I would try the Datejs library: http://www.datejs.com/

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The format strings used by datejs (see code.google.com/p/datejs/wiki/FormatSpecifiers) are not compatible with SimpleDateFormat.
Are you saying that Datejs's parseExact function called like this 'var myDate = Date.parseExact("2010-12-10", "yyyy-MM-dd");' doesn't work? It seems to me it covers the OP's example and may in fact cover a lot more that he needs. Maybe I should have been a little forthcoming in my answer.
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I guess you are not the only looking for it. See this thread that has similar content. In the end, the author had to role his/her own but there are some good suggestions in there that might be of benefit.

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Google's GWT project has a class to do this. http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/1.5/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/DateTimeFormat.html Probably no small job to get that into a standalone javascript, though.

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