How to parse Dates in Api with zod

[rbakaou]

Hi, Great wrok with zod. maybe i'm using it wrong but how would i parse a date in Api params i would get a string of Date and Zod expects a Date object. Should i use the zod.string() and parse the date in the backend?

[colinhacks]

Yes, I'd recommend using a string field. If you want to verify that the string is, say, a valid ISO date string, then use a custom validator in combination with something like validator.js to enforce that. 👍

I wasn't initially planning to support Date schemas at all since they're not easily serializable but they were requested by multiple people. I think dealing with dates as ISO strings (until you actually need to display them in a human-readable format) is far more intuitive.

[rbakaou]

Thanks Awesome