Fixing invalid date format on Safari / iOS devices using Javascript

If you construct Javascript's Date object with a format such as 2019-03-20 11:30:00 you'll get an error in Apple's Safari browser on iOS devices.

Other broswers have their own implementation and accept this format, but for Safari you'll need to replace the space with a T to conform to a simplified version of ISO-8601.

So the date would now look like:

const date = new Date("2019-03-20T11:30:00")

If you're injecting the Date with a string from PHP you can use the following to work cross-browser which will also be more human-readable:

<?php

$date = (new DateTime())->format('D M j G:i:s');