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parseDate() function

Parse a cookie date string into a Date. Parses according to RFC6265 - Section 5.1.1, not Date.parse().

Signature:

export declare function parseDate(cookieDate: Nullable<string>): Date | undefined;

Parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

cookieDate

Nullable<string>

the cookie date string

**Returns:**

Date | undefined

Remarks

### RFC6265 - 5.1.1. Dates

The user agent MUST use an algorithm equivalent to the following algorithm to parse a cookie-date. Note that the various boolean flags defined as a part of the algorithm (i.e., found-time, found- day-of-month, found-month, found-year) are initially "not set".

  1. Using the grammar below, divide the cookie-date into date-tokens.
    cookie-date     = *delimiter date-token-list *delimiter
    date-token-list = date-token *( 1*delimiter date-token )
    date-token      = 1*non-delimiter

    delimiter       = %x09 / %x20-2F / %x3B-40 / %x5B-60 / %x7B-7E
    non-delimiter   = %x00-08 / %x0A-1F / DIGIT / ":" / ALPHA / %x7F-FF
    non-digit       = %x00-2F / %x3A-FF

    day-of-month    = 1*2DIGIT ( non-digit *OCTET )
    month           = ( "jan" / "feb" / "mar" / "apr" /
                       "may" / "jun" / "jul" / "aug" /
                       "sep" / "oct" / "nov" / "dec" ) *OCTET
    year            = 2*4DIGIT ( non-digit *OCTET )
    time            = hms-time ( non-digit *OCTET )
    hms-time        = time-field ":" time-field ":" time-field
    time-field      = 1*2DIGIT
  1. Process each date-token sequentially in the order the date-tokens appear in the cookie-date:

  2. If the found-time flag is not set and the token matches the time production, set the found-time flag and set the hour- value, minute-value, and second-value to the numbers denoted by the digits in the date-token, respectively. Skip the remaining sub-steps and continue to the next date-token.

  3. If the found-day-of-month flag is not set and the date-token matches the day-of-month production, set the found-day-of- month flag and set the day-of-month-value to the number denoted by the date-token. Skip the remaining sub-steps and continue to the next date-token.

  4. If the found-month flag is not set and the date-token matches the month production, set the found-month flag and set the month-value to the month denoted by the date-token. Skip the remaining sub-steps and continue to the next date-token.

  5. If the found-year flag is not set and the date-token matches the year production, set the found-year flag and set the year-value to the number denoted by the date-token. Skip the remaining sub-steps and continue to the next date-token.

  6. If the year-value is greater than or equal to 70 and less than or equal to 99, increment the year-value by 1900.

  7. If the year-value is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 69, increment the year-value by 2000.

  8. NOTE: Some existing user agents interpret two-digit years differently.

  9. Abort these steps and fail to parse the cookie-date if:

  • at least one of the found-day-of-month, found-month, found- year, or found-time flags is not set,

  • the day-of-month-value is less than 1 or greater than 31,

  • the year-value is less than 1601,

  • the hour-value is greater than 23,

  • the minute-value is greater than 59, or

  • the second-value is greater than 59.

(Note that leap seconds cannot be represented in this syntax.)

  1. Let the parsed-cookie-date be the date whose day-of-month, month, year, hour, minute, and second (in UTC) are the day-of-month- value, the month-value, the year-value, the hour-value, the minute-value, and the second-value, respectively. If no such date exists, abort these steps and fail to parse the cookie-date.

  2. Return the parsed-cookie-date as the result of this algorithm.

Example

parseDate('Wed, 09 Jun 2021 10:18:14 GMT')