# Name

MochiKit.DateTime - "what time is it anyway?"

# Synopsis

    stringDate = toISOTimestamp(new Date());
    dateObject = isoTimestamp(stringDate);

# Description

Remote servers don't give you JavaScript Date objects, and they certainly don't want them from you, so you need to deal with string representations of dates and timestamps. MochiKit.Date does that.

# Dependencies

None.

# API Reference

## Functions

isoDate(str):

> Convert an ISO 8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) to a `Date` object.

isoTimestamp(str):

> Convert any ISO 8601 [1] timestamp (or something reasonably close to it) to a `Date` object. Will accept the "de facto" form:

> > YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

> or (the proper form):

> > YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ

> If a time zone designator ("Z" or "[+-]HH:MM") is not present, then the local timezone is used.

toISOTime(date):

> Convert a `Date` object to a string in the form of hh:mm:ss

toISOTimestamp(date, realISO=false):

> Convert a `Date` object to something that's ALMOST but not quite an ISO 8601 [1]_timestamp. If it was a proper ISO timestamp it would be:

> > YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ

> However, we see junk in SQL and other places that looks like this:

> > YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss

> So, this function returns the latter form, despite its name, unless you pass `true` for `realISO`.

toISODate(date):

> Convert a `Date` object to an ISO 8601 [1] date string (YYYY-MM-DD)

americanDate(str):

> Converts a MM/DD/YYYY date to a `Date` object

toPaddedAmericanDate(date):

> Converts a `Date` object to an MM/DD/YYYY date, e.g. 01/01/2001

toAmericanDate(date):

> Converts a `Date` object to an M/D/YYYY date, e.g. 1/1/2001

# See Also

[1] | (1, 2) W3C profile of ISO 8601: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

# Authors

- Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>

# Copyright

Copyright 2005 Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com>. This program is dual-licensed free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the MIT License or the Academic Free License v2.1.