angular-datetime

This module includes a datetime directive and a parser service.

Features

• This module includes:
  • A directive which can simulate datetime input within a text field.
  • A service which can convert a string of date into a Date object, and vice versa.
• Support IE8. Note that old browsers (including IE8-11) require babel-polyfill to be installed.

Dependencies

• Angular 1.2+
• custom-input 0.2.1 - https://github.com/eight04/custom-input

Date string format

Apart from the formats provided officially, angular-datetime support some new tokens:

• ZZ - represent timezone with colon (e.g. +08:00)

Demo

• With Angular 1.2.x: https://rawgit.com/eight04/angular-datetime/master/example/demo.html
• With Angular 1.5.x: https://rawgit.com/eight04/angular-datetime/master/example/demo-1.5.html

Installation

Via npm:

npm install angular angular-datetime-input --save

require("angular-datetime-input");

Or use pre-built dist:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/angular-datetime-input"></script>

Example

datetime service

// Setup dependency
angular.module("myApp", ["datetime"]);

// Use datetime parser
angular.controller("myController", function(datetime){
	// Create a parser
	var parser = datetime("yyyy-MM-dd");

	// Set to current date
	parser.setDate(new Date);
	parser.getText();	// -> "2015-01-30"

	// Parse a date string
	parser.parse("2015-01-30");
	parser.getDate();	// -> Date object
	
	// Set working timezone. Changing timezone will not affect date object but
	// date string (i.e. parser.getText()).
	parser.setTimezone("+0800");
	
	// Reset to default timezone.
	parser.setTimezone();

	// Catch the parsing error
	try {
		parser.parse("2015-123-456");
	} catch (err) {
		console.log(err);	// -> {code: "...", message: "...", ...}
	}
});

datetime directive

Check out the demo page for details.

<input type="text" datetime="yyyy-MM-dd" ng-model="myDate">
<input type="text" datetime="yyyy-MM-dd" ng-model="myDate" required>
<input type="text" datetime="yyyy-MM-dd" ng-model="myDate" datetime-timezone="+0300">
<input type="text" datetime="yyyy-MM-dd" ng-model="myDate" min="Jan 1, 1990" max="Dec 31, 2050">
<input type="text" datetime="yyyy-MM-dd" ng-model="myDate" datetime-model="yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss">
<input type="text" datetime="dd.MM.yyyy" ng-model="myDate" datetime-separator=",">

API reference

This module exports:

• datetime service - a function to create DatetimeParser object.
• datetimePlaceholder constant - a map that define the placeholder of each element.

datetimePlaceholder object

Just a plain object. Edit it in config phase to specify different placeholder.

Default value:

{
	year: "(year)",
	yearShort: "(year)",
	month: "(month)",
	date: "(date)",
	day: "(day)",
	hour: "(hour)",
	hour12: "(hour12)",
	minute: "(minute)",
	second: "(second)",
	millisecond: "(millisecond)",
	ampm: "(AM/PM)",
	week: "(week)"
}

datetime(format: String) => DatetimeParser

A function to construct a date parser. format is a string containing date definition tokens defined by Angular: https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/filter/date

DatetimeParser

A parser object which can convert String to Date and vice versa.

DatetimeParser.parse(text: String) => DatetimeParser

Parse text. This method might throw error.

DatetimeParser.getText() => String

Return formatted text.

DatetimeParser.setDate(date: Date) => DatetimeParser

Set date and conver date to text.

DatetimeParser.getDate() => Date

Return Date object.

These methods are usually used like:

date = parser.parse(text).getDate();
text = parser.setDate(date).getText();

DatetimeParser.setTimezone([timezone: String]) => DatetimeParser

Set the timezone of the parser. timezone is a string matching /[+-]\d{2}:?\d{2}/.

If timezone is not provided, reset timezone to browser default.

Setting timezone doesn't affect model value but update text.

time = parser.getDate().getTime();
parser.setTimezone(newTimezone);
time2 = parser.getDate().getTime();

console.assert(time == time2);

DatetimeParser.isEmpty() => boolean

Return true if there is any empty element.

DatetimeParser.isInit() => boolean

Return true if all elements are set.

DatetimeParser.unset() => DatetimeParser

Set all elements to empty.

Known issues

• 2 digit year 'yy' is ambiguous when converting datestring back to date object (Ex. 14 -> 2014, 1914, ...). You should avoid it.

Notes

• Some info about getting selection range across all browsers:
  • https://github.com/acdvorak/jquery.caret
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19814465/is-it-possible-to-insert-text-in-textarea-and-update-undo-redo-queue

Changelog

• 5.3.0 (Apr 19, 2018)
  • Add: datetime-timezone attribute. Now you can customize the timezone in the directive. #60 @andreyjkee
• 5.2.1 (Sep 17, 2017)
  • Fix: use unpkg field in package.json.
• 5.2.0 (Sep 17, 2017)
  • Fix: use explicit DI annotation. #57
  • Change: dist file is minimized. #14
  • Change: pre-built dist now includes custom-input so there is no need to inject it manually.
  • Update custom-input to 0.3.0 which uses event-lite for smaller file size.
• 5.1.3 (Jul 24, 2017)
  • Fix overflowed day issue. #52
• 5.1.2 (Apr 16, 2017)
  • Fix jQuery compat issue. #45
• 5.1.1 (Mar 30, 2017)
  • Increase directive's priority. #46
• 5.1.0 (Mar 9, 2017)
  • Switch to browserify.
  • Drop karma, switch to mocha + jsdom.
  • Update custom-input to 0.2.0.
  • Now this package is requirable, perhaps it works better in different bundlers.
• 5.0.0 (Dec 23, 2016)
  • Rewritten in ES6.
    • The core part of the parser and the input mask are pulled out as custom-input
    • Support IE8 by transpiling through babel and using polyfill for missing functions.
  • Add constant datetimePlaceholder.
• 4.1.0 (Oct 5, 2016)
  • Refactor.
  • Fix day priority bug.
  • Add parser.isEmpty. Fix required issue.
• 4.0.0 (Sep 1, 2016)
  • Change how parser work. It can represent "undefined" node now.
  • Use tab key to navigate between different parts.
• 3.2.2 (Jun 30, 2016)
  • Return false if there is no ngModel.
• 3.2.1 (Jun 18, 2016)
  • Fix a bug that empty min, max cause invalid date.
• 3.2.0 (May 17, 2016)
  • Support dynamic datetime-utc. #29
• 3.1.1 (Apr 17, 2016)
  • Deploy to npmjs/angular-datetime-input.
  • Drop grunt.
• 3.1.0
  • Jump on the next segment on pressing next separator key. (#26)
  • Add datetime-separator option.
  • Now it will try to fix NUMBER_TOOSHORT error when pressing left/right/separator key.
• 3.0.1 (Apr 9, 2016)
  • Fix validator and datetime-model bug. #27
• 3.0.0 (Apr 1, 2016)
  • Add token ZZ. #24
  • Fix datetime-utc issue. #21
  • Add parser.setTimezone. #22
  • Use PhantomJS for testing.
  • Change Angular dependency to ^1.2.0.
  • Fix date overflow bug.
• 2.2.1 (Mar 31, 2016)
  • Fix reference error with "Z" token. See #20
• 2.2.0 (Feb 23, 2016)
  • Add new error type "LEADING_ZERO", "NUMBER_TOOSMALL".
  • Use the behavior introduced in #18.
  • Add default attribute.
• 2.1.0 (Jan 12, 2016)
  • Add datetime-utc option.
• 2.0.1 (Jan 1, 2016)
  • Add MIT License
• 2.0
  • Add min, max, datetime-model directive.
  • Support $validators in angular 1.3.x.
  • Update Eslint to 1.x.
  • Fix timezone token Z.
• 1.0
  • Added Karma test.
  • Changed source structure.
  • Now you can chain parser's methods.
  • Parsing error won't mess up modelValue anymore.