Comments on: Format Twitter ‘created_at’ Date with Javascript

By: Hal

Hal — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:37:30 +0000

@BRENEN – great code; thanks for sharing. I’m no regex expert, but I was able to get it working in Safari by running two expressions – one to grab everything after the time, then another to move the time zone to then end to satisfy the datetime format issue for the date object. I’m sure someone that knows what they are doing could combine the two into one regex:

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:02:45 +0000

@BRENEN when I use your code this is the result;

December -2147483629, 1969 -8:-31:-23 GMT-05:00

Not Sunday, January 31, 2010 • 4:01:53 PM

By: Uddy

Uddy — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:22:00 +0000

@BRENEN – works perfectly. thanks for sharing

By: kylie rose

kylie rose — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:30:07 +0000

@BRENEN – your script works perfectly. thanks for sharing!

By: loige

loige — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:05:59 +0000

@BRENEN
Your last submission does not seems to work on safari for windows :S

By: Brenen

Brenen — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:10:47 +0000

oops..
function parseTwitterDate(text) {
var newtext = text.replace(/(\+\S+) (.*)/, ‘$2 $1′)
var date = new Date(Date.parse(newtext)).toLocaleDateString();
var time = new Date(Date.parse(newtext)).toLocaleTimeString();
return date +’ • ‘ + time;
}

By: Brenen

Brenen — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:01:29 +0000

This does not work at all.. It returns things like ‘Thursday, J • anuar PM’ and ‘NaN • Na PM’ in IE. These are just from your Recent Twitter side bar thing. The problem is that toLocaleString makes it into full month and day names. The IE problem is because twitter’s format isn’t in standard javascript format. I made a little thing just to make it function, if you want to take the seconds off and such, go ahead.

function parseTwitterDate(text) {
var newtext = text.replace(/(\+\S+) (.*)/, ‘$2 $1′)
var date = new Date(Date.parse(text)).toLocaleDateString();
var time = new Date(Date.parse(text)).toLocaleTimeString();
return date +’ • ‘ + time;
}

returns Sunday, January 31, 2010 • 4:01:53 PM

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:00:23 +0000

Then all you want is the ‘text’ property of the ‘status’ node.
For example look here:
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/braitsch.xml?count=3
statuses -> status -> text
or something like this in actionscript.
var list:XMLList = statuses.status;
var tweet:String = list[0].text;
will return the text of the first tweet in the list.

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:42:39 +0000

What if you want to get rid of the created date completely? I am creating a twitter feed for my website and would like to just show the text of my tweet and nothing else.

Thanks!

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:28:21 +0000

You don’t. If you wanted to parse a Twitter feed with AS3 you’d request the feed from Flash and write a separate but similar function to handle the result. I’d probably use a regular expression to parse the returned XML date string since the AS3 date object lacks the JS date methods shown in the example above.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:15:10 +0000

how do you call and use this from as3?