I have two string dates in the format of m d yyyy For example 11 1 2012 1 2 2013 I am writing a function in JavaScript to compare two string dates The signature of my function is bool isLater string1 string2 if the date passed by string1 is later than the date passed by string2 it will return true otherwise false So isLater 1 2 2013 11 1 2012 should return true How do I write a JavaScript function for this

var d1 Date parse 2012-11-01 var d2 Date parse 2012-11-04 if d1 lt d2 alert Error Demo Jsfiddle

how to compare two string dates in javascript?

var d1 = Date.parse("2012-11-01");
var d2 = Date.parse("2012-11-04");
if (d1 < d2) {
    alert ("Error!");
}

~ Answered on 2013-02-08 20:57:33