RangeError: invalid date
The JavaScript exception "invalid date" occurs when an invalid date is attempted to be converted to an ISO date string.
Message
RangeError: Invalid time value (V8-based) RangeError: invalid date (Firefox) RangeError: Invalid Date (Safari)
Error type
What went wrong?
You are converting an invalid date value to an ISO date string. This usually happens in one of three ways:
- Calling the
toISOString()
method - Calling the
toJSON()
method, which implicitly callstoISOString
- Using
JSON.stringify()
to stringify the date, which implicitly callstoJSON
An invalid date is produced when you attempt to parse an invalid date string, or set the timestamp to an out-of-bounds value. Invalid dates usually cause all date methods to return NaN
or other special values. However, such dates do not have valid ISO string representations, so an error is thrown when you attempt to do so.
Examples
Invalid cases
js
const invalid = new Date("nothing");
invalid.toISOString(); // RangeError: invalid date
invalid.toJSON(); // RangeError: invalid date
JSON.stringify({ date: invalid }); // RangeError: invalid date
However, most other methods return special values:
js
invalid.toString(); // "Invalid Date"
invalid.getDate(); // NaN
For more details, see the Date.parse()
documentation.
Valid cases
js
new Date("05 October 2011 14:48 UTC").toISOString(); // "2011-10-05T14:48:00.000Z"
new Date(1317826080).toISOString(); // "2011-10-05T14:48:00.000Z"