README.rst

DateJS

Convert Date from a JavaScript Date object to a Python DateTime object

Usage

To use this library, you must first install the library (pip install DateJS)

In your code, you must import DateJS package by including from DateJS import DateJS.

To convert JavaScript Date, initialize a DateJS object by doing DateJS(JAVASCRIPT_DATE_STRING, convert), where the JAVASCRIPT_DATE_STRING can be determined by running new Date().toString() in JavaScript and convert is whether you would like to convert the time to the server timezone.

Get Values

You can access a wide array of values by calling one of the following methods:

Year -> getYear()

Month -> getMonth()

Date -> getDate()

Hours -> getHours()

Minutes -> getMinutes()

Seconds -> getSeconds()

Milliseconds -> getMilliseconds()

Common Timezone (From pytz.common_timezones) -> getTimezone()

Time (as a DateTime object) -> getTime()

Common Errors

If you get a JavaScript Runtime Error, you can fix this by running sudo apt-get install nodejs. This will configure the JavaScript Runtime Environment.

Examples

Format: DateJS(JAVASCRIPT_STRING, convert).

from DateJS import DateJS

dJS = DateJS("Thu Oct 19 2017 21:50:06 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)", True)

dJS.getTime() # Get datetime object of time with timezone data

dJS.getTimezone() # Returns a timezone object from pytz

If you use the example above, JavaScript will automatically convert the Date into the timezone of the python server. In order to maintain the existing timezone, you can set the convert field to False.

dJS = DateJS("Thu Oct 19 2017 21:50:06 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)", False)

dJS.getTime() # Get datetime object of time with timezone data

dJS.getTimezone() # Returns a timezone object from pytz

Unnoticed Errors

If you would like to report any errors, please open an issue. If you know how to fix the issue, please submit appropriate changes.