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JavaScript IsDate Function

02.20.2009

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        JavaScript function that determines if a variable is a proper Date object including a valid date.

function isDate (x) 
{ 
  return (null != x) && !isNaN(x) && ("undefined" !== typeof x.getDate); 
}

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Charles Beebe replied on Tue, 2012/05/15 - 11:36am

@Snippets Manager: thanks for the help -- this was better than the answers I found on SO!

Jason McDonald replied on Wed, 2007/05/16 - 8:11pm

Explicitness. "return x && ..." will eval to false if x is undefined and I think if x.getTime() == epoch (aka 0 time). Generally, I prefer my JavaScript to not treat undefined the same as null due to design problems it creates in larger code bases. Actually, this code may not handle Infinity and -Infinity as valid Dates, I need to check on that. I may have just thought of a better way to handle the class check as well.