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Does anyone know why the Date constructor (`new Date()`) doesn't seem to work with a string passed in, at least in server scripts, despite that being a part of the base JS specs? I'm getting an ISO date string back from an API and I was really hoping to not have to use a library or build a function just to parse something that standard JS should be able to do.

Specs for reference: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/Date#syntax>

And an example of what I'm trying that's giving me `Invalid Date` in a Suitelet: `new Date('2022-07-28T13:06:15-05:00')`

suitescript 2.0 is old enough to use a date constructor that was less well defined

it only accepts iso 8601 strings of the format "2022-08-12T20:20:54.074Z"

Interesting. I new 2.0 had its limitations like that but I thought the flexibility in ISO formatting was old enough that it would be included. Good to know though, thanks for the insight. I just confirmed that the format I'm getting from the API works in 2.1 so when I make the switch I can streamline things a bit.