add toDate toDateTime in filter

[guileen]

I just get here, and view the source code, great work, but just one question, why not put toDate, toDateTime in Filter?

[chriso]

As in unix timestamp to a Javascript Date object? Or a full blown strptime implementation? A unix timestamp to Date object would be easy:

var toDate = function (timestamp) {
    return new Date(parseInt(timestamp, 10) * 1000);
}

[guileen]

Thanks. it is a problem for the format of date.

I just create a project node-iform, base on node-validator. I hope you can take a look that.

[chriso]

I'd say it's outside the scope of the library, but you can have a look at moment.js which might have the date parsing/formatting functionality you're looking for. I'll take a look at node-iform - nice to see validator out in the wild.

[chesles]

A simple "toDate" that calls new Date(this.str) would be handy in Filter. Date.parse or new Date in node already handle some parsing:

> new Date('Jan 27, 2011')
Thu Jan 27 2011 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (MST)
> new Date(1296111600000)
Thu Jan 27 2011 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (MST)

Maybe a quick check to see if the input is all-numeric (as in the case of "1296111600000"), since passing that as a string returns an Invalid Date.