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I keep getting "Invalid Date" error when passing _createdAt to the function. Please help.

function calcAge(dateString) {
var birthday = new Date(dateString + " PDT");
//var birthday = new Date(dateString);
alert(birthday);
return ...
}

Regards

Hi,

Try this code:
codefunction calcAge(dateString) {
var birthday = new Date(dateString);
alert(birthday);
return ...
} /code
The server sends string that is properly parsed by embedded Date.

I have tried that already and that also didn't work.

What do you see on the alert? codealert( dateString );/code

What is the value of _createdAt?

Sorry for the delay. The output of alert(dateString) = 2013-03-29 16:06:34.517

Could you call this?
codealert( typeof dateString );/code
Also try replacing the function with the following:
codefunction calcAge(dateString) {
var birthday = new Date( dateString + " " );
alert(birthday);
return ...
}/code

alert( typeof dateString ); = string
alert(birthday); = Invalid date

We'll look for a solution.

A workaround is to only use the date and ignoring the time ie.

new Date(dateString.split(" ")[0]);