Bug 196894 – Date parses time-and-time string without timezone incorrectly

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: JavaScriptCore

[T.J. Crowder]

JavaScriptCore parses dates in this format incorrectly, because there's no timezone indicator but there is a time portion:


```js
new Date("2019-04-13T09:00:00")
```

It should parse it in _local time_, but parses it as UTC instead. V8, SpiderMonkey, and Chakra parse it correctly. This fiddle demonstrates the problem: https://jsfiddle.net/tjcrowder/ojmh3fsv/2/

The rules changed between ES2015 and ES2016 but have been stable since. Current rules are here: https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-date.parse

> When the UTC offset representation is absent, date-only forms are
> interpreted as a UTC time and date-time forms are interpreted as
> a local time.

This bug is similar to #89071 but that report (from 2012) is severely outdated now, not least because it predates this being added to the specification. (I believe #89071 can be closed as some form of "no longer relevant." Or if not, this can be made a duplicate of that and we can update its description.)

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/49882137>

[Ross Kirsling]

Closing as duplicate, since bug 89071 comment 2 provides the updated spec context you mentioned.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 89071 ***