[javascript] jQuery date/time picker

I've been looking around for a decent jQuery plugin that can handle both dates and times. The core UI DatePicker is great, but unfortunately I need to be able to take time in as well.

I've found a few hacks for the DatePicker to work with times, but they all seem pretty inelegant and Google isn't turning up anything nice.

Is there a good jQuery plugin for selecting dates and times in a single UI control with a usable interface?

@David, thanks for the recommendation! @fluid_chelsea, I've just released Any+Time(TM) version 3.x which uses jQuery instead of Prototype and has a much-improved interface, so I hope it now meets your needs:

http://www.ama3.com/anytime/

Any problems, please let me know via the comment link on my website!

I researched this just recently and have yet to find a decent date picker that also includes a decent time picker. What I ended up using was eyecon's awesome DatePicker, with two simple dropdowns for time. I was tempted to use Timepickr.js though, looks like a really nice approach.

My best experience with a datepicker is with the prototype-based AnyTime. I know that's not jQuery, but it may still be worth the compromise for you. I know absolutely no prototype, and it's still easy enough to work with.

One caveat I've found: it is not forward compatible on some browsers. That is, it did not work with a newer version of prototype on Chrome.

In my view, dates and times should be handled as two separate input boxes for it to be most usable and efficient for the user to input. Let the user input one thing at a time is a good principle, imho.

I use the core UI DatePicker, and the following time picker.

This one is inspired by the one Google Calendar uses:

jQuery timePicker:
examples: http://labs.perifer.se/timedatepicker/
project on github: https://github.com/perifer/timePicker

I found it to be the best among all of the alternatives. User can input fast, it looks clean, is simple, and allows user to input specific times down to the minute.

PS: In my view: sliders (used by some alternative time pickers) take too many clicks and require mouse precision from the user (which makes input slower).

This is some code I use to have a user select one datetimepicker, set the datetime, and have the other datetimepicker add One Minute to that time.

I needed this for a custom medication control....

Anyway, thought it might help someone else since I could not find the answer any where online...

(at least not a complete answer)

Keep in mind that the 60000 added, adds one minute. (60 * 1000 milliseconds)

$('.frdtPicker').datetimepicker({
        onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
            var endDateTextBox = $('.todtPicker');
            if (endDateTextBox.val() != '') {
                var testStartDate = new Date(dateText);
                var testEndDate = new Date(endDateTextBox.val());
                if (testStartDate > testEndDate) {

                    var testStartDate = new Date(dateText).getTime() + 60000;
                    var testStartDate2 = new Date(testStartDate); 

                    endDateTextBox.datetimepicker('setDate', (new Date(testStartDate2)));
                }
            }
            else {
                var testStartDate = new Date(dateText).getTime() + 60000;
                var testStartDate2 = new Date(testStartDate);
                endDateTextBox.datetimepicker('setDate', (new Date(testStartDate2)));
            }
            $('.frdtPicker').val(dateText); //endDateTextBox.val());

        },
        onSelect: function(selectedDateTime) {
            var start = $(this).datetimepicker('getDate');
            $('.todtPicker').datetimepicker('option', 'minDate', new Date(start.getTime()));
        }
    });

Take a look at the following JavaScript plugin.

Javascript Calendar with date and time

I've made it to be simple as possible. but it still in its early days. Let me know the feedback so I could improve it.

Just to add to the info here, The Fluid Project has a nice wiki write-up overviewing a large number of date and/or time pickers here.

We had trouble finding one that worked the way we wanted it to so I wrote one. I maintain the source and fix bugs as they arise plus provide free support.

http://www.yart.com.au/Resources/Programming/ASP-NET-JQuery-Date-Time-Control.aspx

I make one function like this:

function getTime()
{
    var date_obj = new Date();
    var date_obj_hours = date_obj.getHours();
    var date_obj_mins = date_obj.getMinutes();
    var date_obj_second = date_obj.getSeconds();

    var date_obj_time = "'"+date_obj_hours+":"+date_obj_mins+":"+date_obj_second+"'";
    return date_obj_time;
}

Then I use the jQuery UI datepicker like this:

$("#selector").datepicker( "option", "dateFormat", "yy-mm-dd "+getTime()+"" );

So, I get the value like this: 2010-10-31 12:41:57

By far the nicest and simplest DateTime picker option is http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/.

It is an extension of the jQuery UI Datepicker so it will support the same themes as well it works very much the same way, similar syntax, etc. This should be packaged with the jQuery UI imo.

I have ran into that same problem. I actually developed my using server side programming, but I did a quick search to try and help you out and found this.

Seems alright, didn't look at the source too much, but seems to be purely JavaScript.

Take look:

http://www.rainforestnet.com/datetimepicker/datetimepicker.htm

Here is the demo page link:

http://www.rainforestnet.com/datetimepicker/datetimepicker-demo.htm

good luck

Not jQuery, but it works well for a calendar with time: JavaScript Date Time Picker.

I just bound the click event to pop it up:

$(".arrival-date").click(function() {
    NewCssCal($(this).attr('id'), 'mmddyyyy', 'dropdown', true, 12);
});