I'm working with an ASP.NET app with localization and globalization. I'm having some difficulty understanding how to get the Date() function in javascript to work properly given the user's environment. My user base is split between Mexico (spanish) and the US (english). Since the Mexico date format is dd/mm/yyyy and the english format is mm/dd/yyyy, the standard Date(strDate) javascript constructor does not work for me.
Does anyone know the best way to handle globalization/localization of a javascript Date value? I have some business rules to enforce like dateA must be 90 days prior to dateB and dateB cannot exceed today.
Take a look at datejs, it handles localization very nicely. It comes with a lot of globalization setups. You just load the globalization setup of your current CultureInfo and datejs takes care of the rest.
Matt Kruse developed a really interesting date library which should help with your particular case.
Here's a snippet of the method you should use for the issue you mentioned:
// ------------------------------------------------------------------
// parseDate( date_string [, prefer_euro_format] )
//
// This function takes a date string and tries to match it to a
// number of possible date formats to get the value. It will try to
// match against the following international formats, in this order:
// y-M-d MMM d, y MMM d,y y-MMM-d d-MMM-y MMM d
// M/d/y M-d-y M.d.y MMM-d M/d M-d
// d/M/y d-M-y d.M.y d-MMM d/M d-M
// A second argument may be passed to instruct the method to search
// for formats like d/M/y (european format) before M/d/y (American).
// Returns a Date object or null if no patterns match.
// ------------------------------------------------------------------
function parseDate(val) {
var preferEuro=(arguments.length==2)?arguments[1]:false;
generalFormats=new Array('y-M-d','MMM d, y','MMM d,y','y-MMM-d','d-MMM-y','MMM d');
monthFirst=new Array('M/d/y','M-d-y','M.d.y','MMM-d','M/d','M-d');
dateFirst =new Array('d/M/y','d-M-y','d.M.y','d-MMM','d/M','d-M');
var checkList=new Array('generalFormats',preferEuro?'dateFirst':'monthFirst',preferEuro?'monthFirst':'dateFirst');
var d=null;
for (var i=0; i<checkList.length; i++) {
var l=window[checkList[i]];
for (var j=0; j<l.length; j++) {
d=getDateFromFormat(val,l[j]);
if (d!=0) { return new Date(d); }
}
}
return null;
}
You could use: var a = Date.parseLocale(value, formats);
If you provide no custom formats, this function uses the Sys.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture property to determine the culture value.
You can take a look on: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397521.aspx
I wrote an answer to this here. It uses the toLocalString to determine MM/DD/YYY, DD/MM/YYYY,...
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18154195/119741
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I want to store a Javascript Date() object in a spreadsheet with correct format according to spreadsheet's locale (SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetLocale()).
Is there a way to get the country specific (date and) time format string from the spreadsheet locale?
E.g. when locale is de_DE, time format string as hh:mm
but when locale is da_DK, time format string as hh.mm
Interesting as well how to get the countries currency format.
BTW when I have date and time in de_DE and than change to da_DK, dates are reformatted (23.01.2020 -> 23/01/2020) but times are not (it stays as 22:59). Is that an error in Spreadsheet?
Dates in JavaScript have the method toLocaleDateString, which return a string formatted according to the specified locale. But this doesn't seem to work in Apps Script.
If you're open to using an Apps Script Web App for this, you could use this toLocaleDateString in your client-side script (that is, in a script tag in your HTML).
If that's not the case, I think your best option would be to create the relationship between formats and locales yourself, because Apps Script doesn't have a built-in method to achieve that. You could, for example, use a switch statement that would check the locale, and then format the date accordingly with Utilities.formatDate, the tool Apps Script uses to format dates. It could be something along the following lines:
var locale = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSpreadsheetLocale();
var formattedDate;
switch (locale) {
case 'de_DE':
formattedDate = Utilities.formatDate(yourDate, yourTimeZone, "hh:mm");
break;
case 'da_DK':
formattedDate = Utilities.formatDate(yourDate, yourTimeZone, "hh.mm");
break;
// ...
}
return formattedDate;
Reference:
toLocateDateString
Apps Script Web Apps
Utilities.formatDate
I hope this is of any help.
Sorry for that, however I found a function that would be worth checking out, it's toLocaleDateString() and toLocaleTimeString (), they deliver the local date and time format.
Please check
Formato fechas JavaScript.
I did the test from Google Apps Script and it throws me the following
function pruebafecha() {
var d = new Date();
var n = d.toLocaleDateString();
var h = d.toLocaleTimeString();
Logger.log(n);
Logger.log(h);
}
This is the answer(Colombia):
[20-01-24 16:47:50:286 EST] 24 de enero de 2020
[20-01-24 16:47:50:287 EST] 16:47:50 EST
A JavaScript Date object includes date, time and timezone. When Google Apps Script pass a Date object to the spreadsheet using setValue() / setValues() the value is displayed according to the cell number formatting using the spreadsheet timezone.
If the cell formatting is set to Automatic by default the date will be displayed accordingly to the spreadsheet locale.
If you want to force the cell to display a date in an specific format use Class Range setNumberFormat / setNumberFormats
If you don't want to use the above methods and don't want to rely on the spreadsheet locale and automatic cell format then instead of passing a Date object pass the value as an string prepending it with an ' (apostrophe, single quote character) to prevent that that automatic data type parsing changes the value and it's format.
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Javascript in Google Sheets script: help using setNumberFormat
I don't know very well the configuration of the sheet you mention. However, I share a code that I use to print the date and time of data submission of a form.
var d = new Date();
var hour = d.getHours()-1;
var min = d.getMinutes();
var day = d.getDate();
var month = d.getMonth()+1;
var year = d.getFullYear();
if (month<10) {dia = day+"/"+"0"+month+"/"+year;}
else {dia = day+"/"+month+"/"+year;}
if (min<10){time = hour+":"+"0"+min;}
else {time = hour+":"+min;}
What I do in the code is to take the values of day, month and year, I add 1 to the value of month because it takes values [0:11] => [Jan, Dec].
Then I build the format I want from date and time, you can notice that I have 1 left to the hours, because when I did the tests I noticed that the time of the script was one hour above.
I use google translate, I hope it is understood.
I have a method which, given an .NET XmlNode containing an ISO 8601 date in the inner text, will convert it to an X++ date object.
if (CLRInterop::isInitialized(childNode))
{
return str2Date(childNode.innerText(), 321);
}
else return maxDate();
This works great if supplied a string which contains only a date (eg: 2019-03-21), but as soon as a time is also provided in this string (eg: 2019-03-21T00:00:00), it will return nothing.
The easiest fix for this would be just to strip everything past the first 10 characters, but this would break again if for some reason the string only contains 2 characters for the year. Is there a more robust way of handling strings including times in a call to str2date?
I just wrote this job with a bunch of examples. The very first line might be what you want. You can just create this as a new job in AX and then put a breakpoint on the first line and step through each to see what happens, or modify to experiment.
It looks like your string is standard ISO format, which I cover below various ways too.
static void DateTimeJob(Args _args)
{
// This line looks about what you want
utcDateTime utcDateTimeFromString = DateTimeUtil::anyToDateTime("2019-03-21T00:00:00");
// ISO standard format. You can just assign it directly without quotes
utcDateTime utcDateTimeISOFormat = 2019-03-21T00:00:00;
// Misc vars for below
utcDateTime utcNow;
System.DateTime systemDateTime;
date dateOnly;
str systemDateTimeStr;
// Look at
// DateTimeUtil::<> // This has all sorts of useful functions
// str2datetime() // May be useful to you
try
{
// How to go from AX UTC to System.DateTime
systemDateTime = Global::utcDateTime2SystemDateTime(DateTimeUtil::utcNow());
// How to go from System.DateTime to AX UTC
utcNow = Global::clrSystemDateTime2UtcDateTime(System.DateTime::get_UtcNow());
// How to get ONLY the date portion from a UTC
dateOnly = DateTimeUtil::date(utcNow);
// Cast to string for output
systemDateTimeStr = systemDateTime.ToString();
// Output a few examples
info(strFmt("%1, %2, %3",
systemDateTimeStr,
utcNow,
dateOnly));
}
catch (Exception::CLRError)
{
error(AifUtil::getClrErrorMessage());
}
}
I'm going loopy....
I want a date, in date format, for example
21/06/2017 17:23:04 GDT
I stamp this on a document, but I then want to display it on my xpage as:
21/06/2017 17:23
But I keep getting different results no matter what I do. I get the date from the onClick of a button using
var dt = new Date();
I then pass this into a function:
function AddObjectivesHistoryItem(doc, dt, action, username){
var ArrDocHistory:array = doc.getItemValueArray("History");
if(ArrDocHistory.length < 1){
// This should always return an object as it is created when an objectives document is first
// created but do this check to be safe and create an array if for some reason it doesnt exist
ArrDocHistory = [dt+"|"+action+"|"+username];
}else{
// append new value to the array
ArrDocHistory.push(dt+"|"+action+"|"+username);
}
doc.replaceItemValue("History",ArrDocHistory);
doc.replaceItemValue("LastUpdatedByName",username);
doc.replaceItemValue("LastUpdatedDate",dt);
}
I've tried using toLocaleString() and all others it seems but it wont work.
For example, toLocaleString() displays as 13-Mar-2018 15:02:15 on my xpage. It's close to what I want except it uses hyphens instead of slashes, and also displays the seconds.
I've tried using custom date pattern on my date field properties with no luck and I'm certain I'm missing something super obvious!?
Any pointers on how to firstly get the date like 21/06/2017 17:23:04 GDT and store as a date and secondly to then display it as 21/06/2017 17:23, this can be a string if it needs to be.
Thanks
You can get your date value as String in SSJS with:
var dateTimeFormat = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy kk:mm");
var dateTimeString = dateTimeFormat.format(dt)));
If you want to store as text, java.text.SimpleDateFormat is best for converting a date server-side to a specific text format. It can also be used in a converter to manipulate to/from as well.
My application should be able to parse date ignoring timezone (I always know for sure that it is UTC). The problem is that the date might come in both following forms -
2017-09-11T12:44:07.793Z
0001-01-01T00:00:00
I can parse the first one using LocalDateTime, and the second one using Instant class. Is there a way to do that using a single mechanism?
P.S. I'm trying to avoid hardcoding Z at the end of the input string
If the Z offset is optional, you can use a java.time.format.DateTimeFormatterBuilder with an optional section:
DateTimeFormatter fmt = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
// date/time
.append(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME)
// optional offset
.optionalStart().appendOffsetId()
// create formatter
.toFormatter();
Then you can use the parseBest method, with a list of TemporalQuery's that tries to create the correspondent object. Then you check the return type and act accordingly:
Instant instant = null;
// tries to create Instant, and if it fails, try a LocalDateTime
TemporalAccessor parsed = fmt.parseBest("2017-09-11T12:44:07.793Z", Instant::from, LocalDateTime::from);
if (parsed instanceof Instant) {
instant = (Instant) parsed;
} else if (parsed instanceof LocalDateTime) {
// convert LocalDateTime to UTC instant
instant = ((LocalDateTime) parsed).atOffset(ZoneOffset.UTC).toInstant();
}
System.out.println(instant); // 2017-09-11T12:44:07.793Z
Running with the second input (0001-01-01T00:00:00) produces the Instant equivalent to 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z.
In the example above, I used just Instant::from and LocalDateTime::from, so the formatter tries to first create an Instant. If it's not possible, then it tries to create a LocalDateTime. You can add as many types you want to that list (for example, I could add ZonedDateTime::from, and if a ZonedDateTime is created, I could just convert to Instant using toInstant() method).
As you know for sure that the input is always in UTC, you can also set it directly in the formatter:
DateTimeFormatter fmt = new DateTimeFormatterBuilder()
// date/time
.append(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME)
// optional offset
.optionalStart().appendOffsetId()
// create formatter with UTC
.toFormatter().withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);
So you can parse it directly to Instant:
System.out.println(Instant.from(fmt.parse("2017-09-11T12:44:07.793Z"))); // 2017-09-11T12:44:07.793Z
System.out.println(Instant.from(fmt.parse("0001-01-01T00:00:00"))); // 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z
You can "parseBest", like this:
DateTimeFormatter parser = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss[Z]");
Temporal parsed = parser.parseBest(inputString, Instant::from, LocalDateTime::from);
Then you should check what did get parsed, and act accordingly.
The parseBest method will work with any type of TemporalQuery, including most of from methods available on java.time classes. So you can lengthen that list with LocalDate.from, for example.
You can also use that method and lambdas to coerse parse results to the type you want without having instanceof checks that are external for result resolution (although not without one cast):
Instant parsed = (Instant) parser.parseBest(inputString,
Instant::from,
interResult -> LocalDateTime.from(interResult).atZone(ZoneOffset.UTC).toInstant())
Notice that second option uses lambda that converts LocalDateTime to ZonedDateTime and then to Instant, so the parse results are always coersed to Instant.
I need a regex which takes the string YYYY-MM-DD-XXXX (The last 4 are just for purpose of gender/area) It's mostly important to check the first 8 Digits for a valid birth date.
So far i have this:
/^([0-9]{4})\-([0-9]{2})\-([0-9]{2})\-([0-9]{4})$/
Also i want to check so the input age is at least 18 years old. Would appreciate if somone had some input on how to achieve this.
Edit: The regex above was tested in JS, but should work fine in ASP as well?
I have changed your regex a bit to make it look more authentic
^([1-2]\d{3})\-([0-1][1-9])\-([0-3][0-9])\-([0-9]{4})$
years like 3012 will not pass.
Now you want to find whether a person is 18 years or not.
One approach could be to find the difference between the years of dates provided like this
var str = '1990-09-12-5555';
var res = /^([1-2]\d{3})\-([0-1][1-9])\-([0-3][0-9])\-([0-9]{4})$/.exec(str);
var year_now = new Date().getFullYear();
console.log(year_now-res[1]);
a second approach will be more precise one :
var str = '1990-09-12-5555';
var res = /^([1-2]\d{3})\-([0-1][1-9])\-([0-3][0-9])\-([0-9]{4})$/.exec(str);
var todays_date = new Date();
var birth_date = new Date(res[1],res[2],res[3]);
console.log(todays_date-birth_date);
will output the result in milliseconds. You can do the math to convert it into year
Cheers , Hope that helps !
I suggest using moment.js which provides an easy to use method for doing this.
interactive demo
function validate(date){
var eighteenYearsAgo = moment().subtract("years", 18);
var birthday = moment(date);
if (!birthday.isValid()) {
return "invalid date";
}
else if (eighteenYearsAgo.isAfter(birthday)) {
return "okay, you're good";
}
else {
return "sorry, no";
}
}
To include moment in your page, you can use CDNJS:
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.4.0/moment.min.js"></script>
Source
The following will match any year with a valid day/month combination, but won't do validation such as checking you've not entered 31 days for February.
^[0-9]{4}\-(0[1-9]|1[012])\-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\-[0-9]{4}$
Not sure exactly what you're trying to achieve but I'd suggest using a date library for this sort of thing. You could return a message to the user somehow if the entered date fails to parse into an object.
In order to do age validation, you will certainly need to use a library so a regex should only be used for date validation purposes