How to set date and time using Javascript?

[sidchilling]

How can I explicitly set the date, time and timezone in the datetime picker. I have a datetime string of the format '24-Oct-2012 Asia/Kolkata' and I want to display it in the datetime picker.

I have configured the datetimepicker with the following options -

dateFormat : 'dd-M-yy' timeFormat : 'hh:mm z' showTimezone : true timezoneText : 'TZ' timezoneList : myTimeZoneList

Where

myTimeZoneList = [ {'value' : 'America/Los_Angeles', 'label' : 'Pacific'}, {'value' : 'America/Denver', 'label' : 'Mountain'}, {'value' : 'America/Chicago', 'label' : 'Central'}, {'value' : 'America/New_York', 'label' : 'Eastern'}, {'value' : 'UTC', 'label' : 'GMT'}, {'value' : 'Asia/Kolkata', 'label' : 'Indian'} ]

So basically when my page is loaded, I get the value of the datetimepicker from the database and I want to populate my datetimepicker field with it properly. So far, I can't find how to do this?

[trentrichardson]

There is an option called "defaultTimezone" or you can populate the input with the formatted time.

[sidchilling]

How can I populate the input with formatting? Any example available ?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Trent Richardson <notifications@github.com

wrote:

There is an option called "defaultTimezone" or you can populate the input with the formatted time.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/trentrichardson/jQuery-Timepicker-Addon/issues/473#issuecomment-9275288.

Siddharth Saha Skype: siddharth.saha

[trentrichardson]

If your format is "hh:mm z" then when building your html just set the value:

You just have to be sure the value matches the format is all.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:21 PM, sidchilling notifications@github.comwrote:

How can I populate the input with formatting? Any example available ?

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Trent Richardson < notifications@github.com

wrote:

There is an option called "defaultTimezone" or you can populate the input with the formatted time.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub< https://github.com/trentrichardson/jQuery-Timepicker-Addon/issues/473#issuecomment-9275288>.

Siddharth Saha Skype: siddharth.saha

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/trentrichardson/jQuery-Timepicker-Addon/issues/473#issuecomment-9275425.

Thanks,

Trent Richardson

trentdrichardson@gmail.com

trentrichardson.com

[sidchilling]

I set the value in the HTML as "01-Oct-2012 21:31 America/Denver". The text is displaying properly in the input field. However, when I click on the input field to get the datetimepicker, the date and the time are set properly but the timezone selected from the timezone dropdown list is always America/Los_Angeles.