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17th February 2007 - Link Blog

parseDateString function in dateparse.js return wrong date for '2006-12-31'. I didn’t realise that you have to initialise a JavaScript Date object in a certain order; if you don’t weird bugs can result.

Posted 17th February 2007 at 7:04 pm

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