Date in IE

It came across to me today that the new Date() worked differently in chrome and other browsers, namely IE and Safari.

This is what happened:

var date = new Date('2017-08-01 00:00');

// in chrome => successfully converted to date

// in IE / safari => invalid date

According to this page here, string given to date constructor must be RFC2822 or ISO8601 format.
Chrome converted it for me, but These two browsers didn’t, so this is what I did to solve it:

var input = '2017-08-01 00:00';
var date = new Date(moment(input).format());

And this will make it work. I had moment.js library loaded for other uses anyways, so I decided to simply use it.