Functions

isoDate(str):

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

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+

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.

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+

toISOTime(date, realISO=false):

Convert a Date object to a string in the form:

hh:mm:ss

If realISO is set to true, the hours will always use two digits and the time will be reported for the UTC time zone instead (since MochiKit 1.5):

hh:mm:ssZ

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+

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. The realISO flag will also convert the timestamp to the UTC time zone.

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+

toISODate(date):

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

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+

americanDate(str):

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

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+

toPaddedAmericanDate(date):

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

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+

toAmericanDate(date):

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

Availability:

Available in MochiKit 1.3.1+