Converts from jabber timestamps to JavaScript Date objects - Node.js Date

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Converts from jabber timestamps to JavaScript Date objects

Demo Code

/**/*from ww w. jav a 2 s.co  m*/
 * Converts from jabber timestamps to JavaScript Date objects
 * @addon
 * @param {String} ts A string representing a jabber datetime timestamp as
 * defined by {@link http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0082.html XEP-0082}
 * @return A javascript Date object corresponding to the jabber DateTime given
 * @type Date
 */
Date.jab2date = function(ts) {
  var date = new Date(Date.UTC(ts.substr(0,4),ts.substr(5,2)-1,ts.substr(8,2),ts.substr(11,2),ts.substr(14,2),ts.substr(17,2)));
  if (ts.substr(ts.length-6,1) != 'Z') { // there's an offset
    var offset = new Date();
    offset.setTime(0);
    offset.setUTCHours(ts.substr(ts.length-5,2));
    offset.setUTCMinutes(ts.substr(ts.length-2,2));
    if (ts.substr(ts.length-6,1) == '+')
      date.setTime(date.getTime() - offset.getTime());
    else if (ts.substr(ts.length-6,1) == '-')
      date.setTime(date.getTime() + offset.getTime());
  }
  return date;
};

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