Getting the day of the week from date in javascript

[TWG]

Okay. I’ve read articles online that say to just use the .getDate(); on a date and it will return 0 through 6 depending on what day of the week it is. My issue is that I’m reading a date from a database in the following format YYYY-MM-DD:00:00:00 . Every time I try to take that number and run the .getDate on it, it will not complete. The code below works fine until I try to get the day of the week.

$.each(data, function (index, calendar) {
                if( calendar.StartDate >= current_date && count < 6 )
                {
                    var today = new Date();
                    var date_holder = calendar.StartDate;
                    var event_datetime = date_holder.split('T');
                    var event_dtholder = event_datetime[0];
                    var event_date = event_dtholder.split('-');
                    var event_date_holder = event_date[1] + "/" + event_date[2] + "/" + event_date[0];
                    var temp_date = event_date[0] + "-" + event_date[1] + "-" + event_date[2] + "T00:00:00";
                    console.log(today);
                    var event_day_temp = Date.parse(date_holder);
                    var event_day = event_day_temp.getDay();
                    console.log(event_day);
                    $holder = "
" + month[event_date[1] - 1] + "
" + event_date[2] + "
<h6>" + calendar.Title + "</h6>" + monthLng[event_date[1] - 1] + " " + event_date[2] + "," + event_date[0] +  "
";
                    $(".events").append($holder);
                    $holder = "";
                    count += 1;
                }
            });

[TWG]

@Soronbe,

Thanks for the reply. I actually just figure out my problem about 10 minutes ago. I needed to do the following:

var day_temp = new Date("January 10, 1992");

Thanks for the reply though. I didn’t even think about the console.log until after I wrote this. Newbie mistake, oops.

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