Android, Webkit and Date parsing

Here’s a thing.

You know how you’ve always felt a bit uneasy when you’ve passed a string into javascript’s new Date(), even when you know it’s in perfectly respectable ISO format?

Well it doesn’t work at all on my phone (Android 2.1 running WebKit 3.1).

Bummer.

Give new Date() a timestamp instead. Here’s some dirty python to generate just that:

    import time
    return int(time.mktime(the_date.timetuple()) * 1000)

We’ll fret about timezones later

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