Normalize date string

normalizeDate.js

function normalizeDate(dateString) {

    // If it's not at least 6 characters long (8/8/88), give up.
    if (dateString.length && dateString.length < 6) {
        return '';
    }

    var date = new Date(dateString), 
        month, day;

    // If input format was in UTC time, adjust it to local.
    if (date.getHours() || date.getMinutes()) {
        date.setMinutes(date.getTimezoneOffset());
    }

    month = date.getMonth() + 1;
    day = date.getDate();

    // Return empty string for invalid dates
    if (!day) {
        return '';
    }

    // Return the normalized string.
    return date.getFullYear() + '-' +
        (month > 9 ? '' : '0') + month + '-' + 
        (day > 9 ? '' : '0') + day;
}