DatePicker & TimePicker control in WinJS.UI.DatePicker & WinJS.UI.TimePicker

Question

Hi all,

I am creating a metro application using HTML5 & JavaScript. I am trying to use DatePicker & TimePicker control in my application.

When I retrieve the DatePicker value, It shows me the UTC part of date too like this:

Sat Jan 25 12:00:00 UTC +0530 2014 ( I want only Sat Jan 25 2014) not 12:00:00 UTC +0530

Similarly with TimePicker the value show as:-

FRI Jul 15 16:38:00 UTC +0530 2011 ( time part is correct) but I do not want FRI Jul 15 UTC + 0530 2011.

How can I do It.

Please help me with some guidelines.

Thanks,

Vishwajeet.

Answer 1

Hi,

Put the value in the Date object: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/cd9w2te4.aspx

and extract the values you want.

You can code like below:

 function dateDemo() {
    var s="";
    this.datePicker = document.getElementById("datePicker");
            this.datePicker.addEventListener("change", function () {
                s+= datePicker.current.getDate();
                s+ = datePicker.current.getMonth() + 1;
                s+ = datePicker.current.getFullYear();
            }); 
}

Refer to the link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211674.aspx

Best Wishes!

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Answer 2

Thanks a lot. It helped me and gave me helpful information.

I used the following and it started showing the result as expected.

convertedDate = selectedDate; ( the value of selectedDate variable is the value of the datePicker control)
 convertedDate = convertedDate.toLocaleDateString();

toLocalDateString() method of the Date  class gives the result as expected.

Is this the right way to do it.

Thanks again :)