There's no guard against unparsed characters at the end of the date string, any extra characters are just ignored

Fixes #7244 - Datepicker: parseDate() does not throw an exception for long years

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/unit/datepicker/datepicker_tickets.js b/tests/unit/datepicker/datepicker_tickets.js
index 2b9ce05de..d5249f905 100644
--- a/tests/unit/datepicker/datepicker_tickets.js
+++ b/tests/unit/datepicker/datepicker_tickets.js
@@ -29,4 +29,13 @@ test('Ticket 6827: formatDate day of year calculation is wrong during day lights
     equals(time, "089");
 });
 
+test('Ticket #7244: date parser does not fail when too many numbers are passed into the date function', function() {
+    expect(1);
+    try{
+        var date = $.datepicker.parseDate('dd/mm/yy', '18/04/19881');
+    }catch(e){
+        ok("invalid date detected");
+    }
+});
+
 })(jQuery);