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Hi,

I was looking at your library for Date parsing and thought I found what I was looking for - that is, a javascript library that is able to parse dates in Australian format properly.

On this page - http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/3/exampl ... parse.html
when I enter the Date 31/07/2011 into the textbox and hit the Parse date button, the following date comes out the other end:

Sun Jul 07 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0930 (AUS Central Standard Time)

Not 31 July 2011.

It would be good if you could include the smarts to parse a string such as 31/07/2011 and control the culture (perhaps by passing in some kind of Culture object as an overloaded parameter.

Parsing strings into dates in javascript is always a headache, unless toy are using a commercial library such as Telerik, which has the smarts to do this.

That is all. Looks like a nice library otherwise.

I have not looked at it.

But I am guessing it is for formatting a date to string, rather than parsing a string to a date.

Hi Alberto,

There are quite a few ways for a date to be input by a user as 31/07/2011 (remember, that's Ausn format, not US. We're sensible in our ordering of date values - day/month/year ).

On a crude interface, it may just be a textbox where a user has typed in the string 31/07/2011.

The reason I have so much time for the Telerik controls is because they have client-side API's. So, so long as the user inputs a valid date format, the getDate() call will parse that string into a javascript date object. It doesn't care about the 00:00:00 GMT+0930 part of the date. And in many cases, neither does the user themselves.

So, my wishlist for a Date parsing api would be one that can achieve what Telerik's control does (via its client-side API). I'm sure other 3rd party component vendors may have solved this problem as well. But I have not seen it yet in any open source js libraries.

As I set out in my original post, YUI - fail. So, hopefully they'll improve it with the next release. It is a very difficult problem to solve. But that's life for a language that does not have strong types.

Hello David.

If you need an input form library based on YUI2 you may give a look at inputEx [1][2].

Hope that helps,
IceBox

[1] http://neyric.github.com/inputex/
[2] http://neyric.github.com/inputex/exampl ... field.html

P.S. I don't know if Form Module (YUI3) in Gallery can accomplish to your needs.

http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/show/form

Hello Paul.

I think they work with 2.6.0 and now they are outdated.

I don't control YUI blog pages.
Anyway thanks for your feedback.

Regards,
Alberto