FullCalendar IETF date in Firefox - date

Question

I have been working with the FullCalendar and came across some problems in Firefox. I have selectable on and the start date comes over in IETF format. For some reason, IE8 is able to post this (and autoconvert it to a timestamp), but Firefox won't.
It leaves it in IETF format, and PHP's date() function doesn't work with it. I used the fullCalendar.formatDate() function as a work-around, but this doesn't seem like the best solution to me.
Is there another way to make this work?
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(document).ready(function () {
var date = new Date();
var calendar = $("#calendar").fullCalendar({
theme: true,
title: "Employee Calendar",
header: {
left: 'prev,next today',
center: 'title',
right: 'month,agendaWeek,agendaDay'
},
buttonIcons: {prev: 'circle-triangle-w', next: 'circle-triangle-e'},
editable: true,
droppable: true,
events: '<?php echo matry::base_to('utilities/calendar_events');?>',
eventClick: function (event) {
$.ajax({
url: '<?php echo matry::base_to('utilities/calendar_tools');?>',
type: 'POST',
data: {id: event.id, job: 'getEvent'},
success: function(data){
$("#event_box").fadeIn(500);
$("#event_info").html(data);
}
});
},
selectable: true,
selectHelper: true,
select: function (start, end, allDay){
var title = prompt('Event Title');
start = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(start, 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss');
end = $.fullCalendar.formatDate(end, 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss');
if (title)
{
$.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: '<?php echo matry::base_to('utilities/calendar_tools');?>',
data: {title: title, start: start, end: end, allDay: allDay, job: 'createEvent'},
success: function(data) {
calendar.fullCalendar('refetchEvents' );
$("#alerts").html(data);
}//close success function
})//close ajax
}
else
calendar.fullCalendar('unselect');
}//close select function
}); //close fullcalendar function
$("#calendar_controls").accordion({
collapsible: true,
clearStyle:true,
active: false,
autoHeight: true
});//close calendar controls
$(document).on('submit', '#event_form', function (event){
event.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
url: '<?php echo matry::base_to('utilities/calendar_tools');?>',
type: 'POST',
data: $('#event_form').serialize(),
success: function(data){
$("#event_box").fadeOut('2000');
$("#alerts").html(data).focus();
}
})
});//close on function
$(document).on('click', '#delete', function() {
var con = confirm('Do you want to delete this Event?');
if (con)
{
var id = $("#event_form input[name= 'id']").val();
$.ajax({
url: '<?php echo matry::base_to('utilities/calendar_tools');?>',
data: {id: id, job: 'deleteEvent'},
type: 'POST',
success: function(data){
$("#alerts").html(data).focus()
calendar.fullCalendar('refetchEvents');
$("#event_box").fadeOut(1000);
;}
});
}
})
}); //close document.ready function
</script>

Answer 1

IETF date format doesn't get passed correctly by firefox, but the date can be altered with the $.fullCalendar.formatDate() function that appears to work well. IF this is added wherever dates are passed, the format can be changed.