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Hello community,

I included a custom javascript in my survey to get the local date and time when my respondents load the survey page. The logic flow I set in the survey then used these variables in the javascript as embedded data to decide which page to display. The codes work like a charm only with Chrome on my mac. _However, it didn't work on safari on mac nor safari/chrome on my iPhone/iPad._ Below is the script I included in my survey:

var d = new Date();
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("hour", d.getHours());
var start = new Date(2019-3-3),
end = new Date(),
diff = new Date(end - start),
days = Math.floor (diff/1000/60/60/24);
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('day',days);

Any thoughts why such an issue, and how I can make it to work across browsers and devices? Thanks!
@echongsk,

My guess is that Safari isn't parsing 2019-3-3 correctly. Date parsing is inconsistent among browsers. I recommend using moment.js moment.js for anything beyond basic date handling such as parsing, arithmetic and formatting.
Thanks for your reply, @TomG! How do you install moment.js in qualtrics? I'm not experienced with this. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you!
> @echongsk said:
> Thanks for your reply, @TomG! How do you install moment.js in qualtrics? I'm not experienced with this. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you!

Add this to your header:
```
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/moment@2/moment.min.js"></script>
```

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