Is there an easy way to convert a string date to a Glide Date

[tbisca]

Hello,

I'm working on an integration where they are passing me the date as a string. The contains the following - 'March 11 2016'. I want to be able to set that to a glide date. I've tried a number of different things.

For Example

var gDate = new GlideDate();

gDate.setValue('March 11 2016');

Causes unparseable date error.

I know javascript has a date that allows you to pass a string, but how would I make that a glide date.

var d = new Date("October 13 2014");

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Tim Bisca

[venkatiyer1]

Hi Tim,

There are a few ways to achieve the solution. One way to achieve this would be:

var dd =   Date.parse('March 11 2016'); // gives the milliseconds value


// if this code is in server side use the below lines, above line is common to both server side and client side below
var gDate = new GlideDateTime();
gDate.setValue(parseInt(dd, 10));
gs.print(gDate);
//gDate is the glide date time


// If the code is in client side

var ga = new GlideAjax('DateTimeUtils');
ga.addParam('sysparm_name','msToGlideDateTime');
ga.addParam('sysparm_value', dd);
ga.getXMLWait();
var newGDT = ga.getAnswer();
//newGDT is the glidedatetime