Playing with the JavaScript Date Object

I've been working on a couple of projects that require manipulation of the date strings in one way or another, and one of the things I wanted to achieve was to show a posting date in a list built from RSS, but this meant I would need to convert ISO Date format used in the Blogger RSS feed to a prettier format.

After a bit of Googling and tweaking code, I found a solution, which I will post at a later date, but in the meantime, here's a list of a few useful links relating to manipulating dates using JavaScript.

1. DateJs - Very useful little JavaScript utility for working with dates.
2. Parsing W3C's ISO 8601 Date/Times in JavaScript - Useful script that uses Regular Expressions to handle ISO Format Dates.
3. JavaScript Date Object -Estelle Weyl's useful article giving an overview of the JavaScript date object.
4. JavaScript Toolbox Date Formating - A useful library contains functions to deal with dates in Javascript, parse date strings, format dates to different output strings, and compare dates.
5. JavaScript Pretty Date - John Resiq's function to convert dates to "web 2.0" style strings, eg Something like "2008-01-28T20:24:17Z" would become "2 hours ago".
   
6. JavaScript ISO8601/RFC3339 Date Parser -Another approach to formatting ISO dates.
7. PHPDate - Jon Combe's jQuery port of PHP's Date function. Very useful!
8. JavaScript Source Date & Time - A list of scripts that might come in handy for some readers.
9. JavaScript date string formatting - Svend Tofte's interesting script. again, based on PHP's date function.
10. JavaScript Date Formatting - An Unorthodox Way -Most date formatting implementations use format strings where format specifiers like “mm”, “mmm”, “HH”, etc. are used for selecting different components of a date. Ates Goral tackles the date object from a different angle.

The Complete Guide for the jQuery Developer

Always on the lookout for useful stuff to share, I found The Complete Guide for the jQuery Developer today. Chirag Chamoli at WhiteBoard has compiled a really good list of useful jQuery resources, including blogs, tutorials, plugins, and more.

If you are interested in learning jQuery, or polishing up your skills, it's a great place too start. It's also worth checking out if you are looking for a specific plugin.

Note: Ignore the top list of links, they are all dead.

Cheers Chirag, top post!