Convert a MySQL Date String into Javascript Date Object
Here is a Javascript function that I threw together the other day that will take the default format of a MySQL DATETIME or TIMESTAMP field (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) and convert it into a Date object in Javascript.
function parse_date(string) {
var date = new Date();
var parts = String(string).split(/[- :]/);
date.setFullYear(parts[0]);
date.setMonth(parts[1] - 1);
date.setDate(parts[2]);
date.setHours(parts[3]);
date.setMinutes(parts[4]);
date.setSeconds(parts[5]);
date.setMilliseconds(0);
return date;
}

