title: IE11 Dates from a text field in a variable not passing properly to a service
body: <p>So I have a website that uses dates to search a database.  When working in Firefox and Chrome everything works just fine, but when I toss it into IE (specifically IE 11) the searching wont work.  I've narrowed down my issue to when I get the data from a text field using jquery it wont pass correctly.  </p>
  
  <p>Here is an example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    var start= $('#startdate').val();
      var end = $('#enddate').val();
      $.post(this.url(), {start: start, end: end }, function(data) {
              // do stuff with data
      }));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now what I have tried is messing around in the console and in the js file itself.  The following things work fine:</p>
  
  <pre><code>new Date('12/1/2016'));
  new Date(Date.parse('12/1/2016')));
  var start = '12/16/2016';
  new Date(start ));
  new Date(Date.parse(start)));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But as soon as I add a jquery selector into the mix it breaks and no longer works.  Has anyone encountered this before?</p>