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DateTime Field

Stores a String of both date and time in the model. Displayed as a date and time picker in the Admin UI.

Internally uses moment.js to manage date parsing, formatting and comparison.

If the utc option is set, moment(value).utc() is called in all methods to enable moment’s utc mode.

String parsing with moment will be done using the parseFormat option, which defaults to "'YYYY-MM-DD h:m:s a'".

Example

{ type: Types.Datetime, default: Date.now }

Options

  • parseFormat string

The default pattern to read in values with. Defaults to an array of values to try:

['YYYY-MM-DD', 'YYYY-MM-DD h:m:s a', 'YYYY-MM-DD h:m a', 'YYYY-MM-DD H:m:s', 'YYYY-MM-DD H:m', 'YYYY-MM-DD h:mm:s a Z', moment.ISO_8601]

  • format string

The default format pattern to use when display the information. Defaults to Do MMM YYYY hh:mm:ss a

See the momentjs format docs for information on the supported formats and options.

utc boolean

Sets whether the string should be displayed in the admin UI in UTC time or local time. Defaults to false.

Methods

updateItem

Updates with the provided value if it is different from the stored value.

Uses the Date field parse method to interpret the input as a date.

null and "" can be used to clear the stored value.

validateInput

Ensures the value, if provided, is either a Date object, a number that can be interpreted as epoch time, or a string that can be parsed into a valid date by momentjs.

Allows null and "" to clear the field value.

Inherits from Date

  • format()
  • moment()
  • addFilterToQuery()
  • parse()

Inherits from Text

  • validateRequiredInput()

Filtering

Uses the same logic and filter UI as the Date field type.

Notes

Input should either be a valid Date, or a string in the format YYYY-MM-DD (can be blank unless field is required)

To default Date fields to the current time, set the default option to Date.now