Note for date parsing

Hello all,

This is not a bug report, this is a heads-up message for people those run into this situation.

One of my clients recently told me that the date validations always gives error in iPhones and I started to check the reason, and it came out that date comparisons in safari need a different format than the standards accepted by other browsers.

For example yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss is not a valid format for safari. It should be formatted like yyyy-mm-dd[T]hh:ii:ss[Z] to be accepted in all browsers.

Keep that in mind. There’s nothing to change inside the validator.js code because it’s needed to be done outside the library.

Thanks for the great library!

[tpaksu]

Also check this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4310986/916000

[tpaksu]

Ok, but how can we ensure that the user puts in a valid formatted date for new Date()? Putting a compatibility table for users doesn’t seem to be a right way IMHO. Maybe an extra parameter for specifying a format would be useful but plain javascript doesn’t support that I guess. Will need a library to do the parsing. Complicated…