dev.enekoalonso.com » internet http://dev.enekoalonso.com having fun with code Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:40:17 +0000 en hourly 1 Date from ISO 8601 string http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/09/21/date-from-iso-8601-string/ http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2010/09/21/date-from-iso-8601-string/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:17:34 +0000 Eneko Alonso http://dev.enekoalonso.com/?p=662 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:

  1. var myDate = new Date("2010-09-21T02:57:00Z");
  2. console.log(myDate); // Mon Sep 20 2010 19:57:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

Turns out that does not work on Internet Explorer (tested on IE8). It didn’t work in Titanium Developer either, when I was working on an iPhone/Android app a couple of weeks ago. Here is the function I used to load dates from ISO 8601 strings:

  1. function dateFromISO8601(isostr) {
  2.  var parts = isostr.match(/\d+/g);
  3.  return new Date(parts[0], parts[1] – 1, parts[2], parts[3], parts[4], parts[5]);
  4. }
  5. var myDate = dateFromISO8601("2010-09-21T02:57:00Z");
  6. console.log(myDate); // Mon Sep 20 2010 19:57:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

That should work fine everywhere :)

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Since we are currently working on a C# .Net project, we searched Internet and found this very cool example that we took as a base for a little multiuser game we were working on today: WebSocket Chat


The potential of WebSockets is incredible, specially for online games and multiuser applications.

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There is a group on Facebook (Bring Google Fiber to San Luis Obispo) with more than 1300 members right now, mostly from the tech companies and CalPoly.

If you want to nominate San Luis Obispo, please do it here.

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