Format a string as a date

JavaScript
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Hi guys

In jquery, how can I turn a string “7th May 2020” into a date dd/mm/yyyy ?

Thanks

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jQuery has jQuery UI, and datePicker from there lets you format the date:

$.datepicker.formatDate( "dd/mm/yyyy", new Date("7 May 2020") );
Edit:

Updated to be a valid date string

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Thanks. I just tried that and Im getting Nan/Nan/NanNanNan

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That’s most likely because the literal date string was copy/pasted from the forum where it was ‘published’ and now contains smart/curly quotes. Delete and retype using straight quotes "

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It appears that the Date() parser doesn’t understand the th suffix, but with

new Date('7 May 2020')

it should work.

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