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Date from ISO 8601 string

Written by Eneko Alonso on September 21, 2010 — 1 Comment

Javascript is full of surprises and browser compatibility is even more exciting. For some reason, I thought all browsers or Javascript engines had support for creating dates from ISO 8601 strings. Like this: var myDate = new Date("2010-09-21T02:57:00Z"); console.log(myDate); // Mon Sep 20 2010 19:57:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) Turns out that does not work [...]

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Getting unique timestamps in Javascript

Written by Eneko Alonso on April 14, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Sometimes, when you want to generate unique id’s or similar, it is very common to use the current date as unix timestamp (new Date().getTime() or $time() in Mootools). The problem is that if we get the current timestamp multiple times too fast, it may happen that we get exactly the same value. Actually, this will [...]

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