jQuery DATETIME Functions – Complete Listing
This is the only Date/Time jQuery functions you will ever need. It works better than any other date/time libraries out there and has minimal overhead, guaranteed speed and accuracy.
Includes functions to: get date, convert date, valid date, string to date, leap year, compare date, format date, timezone and heaps of others!!!
jQuery Date/Time Complete Listing
/*___ FILE: “JQUERY4U.datetime.js” ___*/
;(function($)
{
/**
* jQuery Date and time functions – Complete List
*/
var JQUERY4U = JQUERY4U || {};
JQUERY4U.DATETIME =
{
/**
* Name of this class (used for error handling and/or debugging purposes)
* @type String
*/
name: ‘JQUERY4U.DATETIME’,
init: function()
{
JQUERY4U.UTIL.handleErrors(this);
Date.prototype.JQUERY4UFormat = this.format;
},
/**
* Return today’s date in dd/mm/yyyy format
* @returns {String} Date in dd/mm/yyyy format
*/
todaysDate: function()
{
return this.futureDateDays(0);
},
/**
* Return tomorrow’s date in dd/mm/yyyy format
* @returns {String} Date in dd/mm/yyyy format
*/
tomorrowsDate: function()
{
return this.futureDateDays(1);
},
/**
* Return date 7 days from now in dd/mm/yyyy format
* @returns {String} Date in dd/mm/yyyy format
*/
weekFromToday: function()
{
return this.futureDateDays(7);
},
/**
* Return the first day of the next month
* @returns {String} Date in dd/mm/yyyy format
*/
firstDayNextMonth: function()
{
var today = new Date();
nextMonth = new Date(today.getFullYear(), today.getMonth() + 1, 1);
nextMonth.getDate() +’/’+ (nextMonth.getMonth() + 1) +’/’+ nextMonth.getFullYear();
return this.leadingZero(nextMonth.getDate()) +’/’+ this.leadingZero(nextMonth.getMonth() + 1) +’/’+ nextMonth.getFullYear();
},
/**
* Returns x number of dates date in the future in dd/mm/yyyy format
* @param {Integer} days Number of days into the future
* @returns {String} Date in dd/mm/yyyy format
*/
futureDateDays: function(days)
{
var futureDate = new Date();
futureDate.setDate(futureDate.getDate() + days);
return this.leadingZero(futureDate.getDate()) +’/’+ this.leadingZero(futureDate.getMonth() + 1) +’/’+ this.leadingZero(futureDate .getFullYear());
},
/**
* Return the current time in HHMM format
* @returns {String} Time in HHMM (e.g. 23:12) format
*/
timeHHMM: function()
{
var today = new Date();
return this.leadingZero(today.getHours()) + this.leadingZero(today.getMinutes());
},
/**
* Return the current time in HHMMSS format
* @returns {String} Time in HHMMSS (e.g. 23:12:33) format
*/
timeHHMMSS: function()
{
var today = new Date();
return this.leadingZero(today.getHours()) +’:’+ this.leadingZero(today.getMinutes()) +’:’+ this.leadingZero(today.getSeconds());
},
/**
* Takes a date string in Australian format and returns date string in US format
* @param {String} dateStr Date in dd/mm/yyyy format
* @param {String} [separator=”-“] separator character in return date string
* @returns {String} date in mm/dd/yyyy format
*/
convertUSFormat: function(dateStr, separator)
{
var separator = (typeof(separator) == ‘undefined’) ? ‘-‘ : separator;
var re = new RegExp(‘([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{4})’, ‘m’);
var matches = re.exec(dateStr);
return matches[2] + separator + matches[1] + separator + matches[3];
},
/**
* Convert date in mm/dd/yyyy format and return in dd-mm-yyyy format (depending upon separator)
* @param {String} dateStr Date in mm/dd/yyyy format
* @param {String} [separator=”-“] Separator character in return date string
* @returns {String} Date in mm-dd-yyyy format (presuming “-” is separator character)
*/
convertUStoAUSDate: function(dateStr, separator)
{
var separator = (typeof(separator) == ‘undefined’) ? ‘-‘ : separator;
var re = new RegExp(‘([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{4})’, ‘m’);
var matches = re.exec(dateStr);
return matches[2] + separator + matches[1] + separator + matches[3];
},
/**
* Return whether the supplied date components form the expected date
* @param {String} year
* @param {String} month
* @param {String} day
* @returns {Boolean} True if the date components match the date values in Date object
*/
isValidDate: function(year, month, day)
{
var dt = new Date(parseInt(year, 10), parseInt(month, 10)-1, parseInt(day, 10));
if(dt.getDate() != parseInt(day, 10) || dt.getMonth() != (parseInt(month, 10)-1) || dt.getFullYear() != parseInt(year, 10))
{
return false;
}
return true;
},
/**
* Takes a date object and returns in yyyymmdd format
* @param {Date Object} dateObj
* @returns {String} Date in yyyymmdd format
*/
dateToYYYYMMDD: function(dateObj)
{
return (dateObj.getFullYear() + this.leadingZero(dateObj.getMonth() + 1) + this.leadingZero(dateObj.getDate())).toString();
},
/**
* Takes a date object and returns in ddmmyyyy format
* @param {Date Object} dateObj
* @returns {String} Date in ddmmyyyy format
*/
dateToDDMMYYYY: function(dateObj)
{
return (this.leadingZero(dateObj.getDate()) + this.leadingZero(dateObj.getMonth() + 1) + dateObj.getFullYear()).toString();
},
/**
* Takes a date string in dd/mm/yyyy format
* @param {String} dateString Date in dd/mm/yyyy format
* @returns {Date Object} Returns false if date sring is invalid
*/
stringToDate: function(dateString)
{
try
{
var matches = dateString.match(/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{2})/([0-9]{4})/);
if(this.isValidDate(matches[3], matches[2], matches[1]) === false)
{
return false;
}
return new Date(matches[3], parseInt(matches[2], 10)-1, parseInt(matches[1], 10));
}
catch(e)
{
return false;
}
},
/**
* Adds leading zero if passed value is single digit
* @param {String} val
* @returns {String}
*/
leadingZero: function(val)
{
var str = val.toString();
if(str.length == 1)
{
str = ‘0’ + str;
}
return str;
},
/**
* Checks if return date is equal or after departure date
* @param {String} departureDate
* @param {String} returnDate
* @returns {Boolean}
*/
isDepartureReturnDateValid: function(departureDate, returnDate)
{
var dep = this.stringToDate(departureDate);
var ret = this.stringToDate(returnDate);
if(dep > ret)
{
return false;
}
return true;
},
/**
* Detect whether the year supplied is a leap year
* @param {Integer} year
* @returns {Boolean}
*/
isLeapYear: function(year)
{
year = parseInt(year, 10);
if(year % 4 == 0)
{
if(year % 100 != 0)
{
return true;
}
else
{
if(year % 400 == 0)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
}
return false;
},
compareDates: function(from, to)
{
var dateResult = to.getTime() – from.getTime();
var dateObj = {};
dateObj.weeks = Math.round(dateResult/(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 7));
dateObj.days = Math.ceil(dateResult/(1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
dateObj.hours = Math.ceil(dateResult/(1000 * 60 * 60));
dateObj.minutes = Math.ceil(dateResult/(1000 * 60));
dateObj.seconds = Math.ceil(dateResult/(1000));
dateObj.milliseconds = dateResult;
return dateObj;
},
compareDatesDDMMYYYY: function(from, to)
{
from = from.split(‘/’);
from = new Date(from[2], from[1], from[0]);
to = to.split(‘/’);
to = new Date(to[2], to[1], to[0]);
return this.compareDates(from, to);
},
/**
* Allow nice formatting of dates like PHP’s Date function
* Derived from code written by Jac Wright at http://jacwright.com/projects/javascript/date_format
* @param {Date} date JavaScript date object
* @param {String} format Date format string
* @returns {String}
*/
format: function()
{
var date,
format,
args = [].slice.call(arguments),
returnStr = ”,
curChar = ”,
months = [‘January’, ‘February’, ‘March’, ‘April’, ‘May’, ‘June’, ‘July’, ‘August’, ‘September’, ‘October’, ‘November’, ‘December’],
days = [‘Sunday’, ‘Monday’, ‘Tuesday’, ‘Wednesday’, ‘Thursday’, ‘Friday’, ‘Saturday’],
methods =
{
// Day
d: function() { return (date.getDate()