They would have still needed to use string.replace to remove the double quotes around the date string, but I prefer your approach of using the Date APIs to ensure you're always going to get the same result.
Not necessarily, you could do it with String.slice or JSON.parse instead.
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They would have still needed to use string.replace to remove the double quotes around the date string, but I prefer your approach of using the Date APIs to ensure you're always going to get the same result.
Not necessarily, you could do it with String.slice or JSON.parse instead.