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eight04 / angular-datetime

A directive to add the behavior of datetime input on unsupported browsers.
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Any Way To Use Timezone Strings (UTC, EST)? #55

Closed crazyjat closed 6 years ago

crazyjat commented 7 years ago

I have an app that allows users to enter dates and times in either EST or UTC but I haven't been showing the timezone in the input field because I found no way to show it as the string instead of +0500.

A design change is needed to show the UTC or EST strings in the input field. Can this be done?

eight04 commented 7 years ago

Our tokens are based on Angular's date filter. There is no way to represent timezone as a string instead of an offset. Also, I don't think we should maintain the timezone string ourselves, including i18n.

I would suggest to create a <select> component to choose the timezone.

If you really need to put the timezone string into the input, I think we can allow developers to create customized token format, and let angular-datetime read it, like a plugin, then you can create your own token to represent timezone string. Also, you'll need to subclass Date to save timezone information in your date object.