datejs
v1.0.0-rc3
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DateJS is the most full-featured, internationalized, open-source JavaScript Date Library.
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DateJS: Evolved
What is it?
DateJS extends the built-in JavaScript Date object to add much better parsing, internationalization support, and all the functions and syntactic sugar you could wish for.
Background
Date JS was started by Geoffrey McGill in 2007, he abandoned it on May 13th 2008; leaving the Google Code repository stagnant and with many bugs unresolved.
This fork was started improve and maintain DateJS. To keep what is still the most full featured JavaScript Date library alive, maintained, and improved. Currently we're on track towards a 1.0 release - having fixed almost all the existing bugs and added several new features, improved parsing, and many other changes.
How to Install/Use
DateJS supports running either your regular web browser as a client library or Node.js.
In Node.js
Installation is as easy as running:
npm install datejs
For a Browser
If you use Bower to manage your frontend packages then it's also really simple:
bower install datejs
Otherwise...
- For production environments include the production ready minified file from the Build directory on your page.
- For debugging (eg, in development) include the unminified and fully commented version
International Language Versions
In Node.js you can just call Date.i18n.setLanguage
with the IETF appropriate code (e.g. "de-DE", or "es-MX") and DateJS will load the file automatically. For the browser DateJS has langauge support in one of two ways:
- Either download the appropriate file from the Build directory of your choice. Files are named after the IETF code the load (i.e.
date-es-MX.js
loads Mexican Spanish). - Or set
Date.Config.i18n
to the location of the internationalization files on your server and DateJS will dynamically load the files by script element insertion.
DateJS will always support loading US English via Date.i18n.setLanguage("en-US")
no matter what other language is specifically loaded. So you can always support both your localization and the English speaking world.
File Structure
build
Output from the Grunt powered build processdevelopment
Non-minified files with full comments. Suitable for development environments.production
Fully minified (by Google's Closure Compiler) files suitable for production.
src
All the source files used to build the final files.core
The main DateJS source files.i18n
Internationalization files. Language specifics (days of the week, regex formats,etc). Organized by IETF language tag (eg - en-US, etc).
specs
Unit Tests written using Jasmine. Code coverage is calculated by BlanketJS.tests
Orginal unit tests for 2008 project. Deprecated