Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide
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parseDateTimeUTC()
Signature
parseDateTime(string dateTimeString, string parseFormat, string | boolean locale, boolean strictParsing)
Parameters
- dateTimeString
- Type: string
- A datetime string.
- parseFormat
- Type: string
- An optional Java format string used to parse the datetime. The default is from the $Locale global value provider.
- locale
- Type: string | boolean
- This parameter is deprecated.
- strictParsing
- Type: string
- Set this optional parameter to true to turn off forgiving parsing and use strict validation.
Returns
- Type: Date
- Returns a JavaScript Date object, or null if dateTimeString is invalid.
Sample Code
1var date = "2015-10-9";
2// Returns "Thu Oct 08 2015 17:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)"
3$A.localizationService.parseDateTimeUTC(date);