586268 - Date.parse() should accept partial date strings

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect)

Description

[Hannes Wallnoefer]

ECMAScript 5 section 15.9.1.15 describes valid date formats and explicitly includes partial dates, times, and date-time combinations:

YYYY
YYYY-MM
YYYY-MM-DD
THH:mm
THH:mm:ss
THH:mm:ss.sss

Also, the timezone can be specified in numeric +|-hh:mm format in addition to "Z" for UTC. 

Rhino's Date.parse() method currently fails to parse partial dates and numeric timezones.

Comment 1

[André Bargull [:anba]]

[1] contains a more spec-compliant parser for date values in ISO-8601 Extended Format, in particular, see the "parseISOString()" method.

[1] https://github.com/anba/rhino/commit/2f947b93ce84c00a63806adf5600751e9bb7b954#diff-23

Comment 2

[Maros Ivanco]

Attachment: NativeDate.java

Improved support for ISO 8006 extended date-time format.

Comment 3

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing. Bug management is now done here:
https://github.com/mozilla/rhino