new date from string javascript code example

Example 1: js string to date

var myDate = new Date("2013/1/16");

var str = "2013/1/16";
var strToDate = new Date(str);

Example 2: parse date from string in js

Date.parse(dateString)
//dateString is like 2020-10-10 / 2020-10-10T10:20:20

Example 3: javascript date parse yyyy-mm-dd

var dateString = "10/23/2015"; // Oct 23

var dateObject = new Date(dateString);

document.body.innerHTML = dateObject.toString();

Example 4: string date to date in javascript

var ts = '1471793029764';
ts = Number(ts); // cast it to a Number
var date = new Date(ts); // works

var invalidDate = new Date('1471793029764'); // does not work. Invalid Date