ISO8601

ISO8601 handling

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Loading iso8601.js extends the Date prototype with two functions: setISO8601 and iso8601, and adds a parsing helper: Date.iso8601. As ISO8601 W3C profile is one of the most common ways to serialize dates and times in JSON, you may find this useful.

Example Usage

Convert a Date to an ISO8601 representation:

(new Date()).iso8601();    // "2011-02-19T18:30:56.076Z"

Convert an ISO8601 string to a Date:

Date.iso8601("2011-02-19T18:30:56.076Z");    // Sat Feb 19 2011 10:30:56 GMT-0800 (PST)

Notes

Date.prototype.setISO8601 is provided for consistency with the other Date prototype functions. It takes an ISO8601 string, sets the receiver's value to the date represented therein, and returns undefined.