Support unix time instead of plain JS Date object

[alexandernst]

[alexandernst]

I can provide a PR for this if you'll accept it. If you want me to do it in a specific way, please say so. @dalelotts

[alexandernst]

@dalelotts Ping

[dalelotts]

Unix time does not have timezone info. Do you have a suggestion about how to handle the lack of timezone info in this case?

[alexandernst]

@dalelotts You don't. If developer want's to use unix time, he/she (most probably) will be aware of that and will know how to handle himself/herself this situation.

[dalelotts]

Possibly. It's hard to know all of the use cases. I have avoided this type of change because it is often connected to a sub-optimal implementation where time zone handling is not well thought out, which is the opposite of what you are suggesting. Can you give me some more detail on your use case?

[alexandernst]

@dalelotts MongoDB's DateTime() is actually unixtime. A simple REST with Angular on the client side will pull unix time from the database.

Now, I could intercept the unix time and convert it to what this library expects, but then I'd have to add yet another callback for when this library modifies the date (convert back to unix time). The entire thing feels a little bit dirty, as this could be a lot easier if I could just pass the model as-is to this library.

[alexandernst]

@dalelotts Any news on this one? What do you think? Could this be implemented?

[jhammersholt]

Here is how i solved something similar

I just added this to the directive

ngModelController.$parsers.push(function(data) {
  //convert data from view format to model format
  if (data) {
      return moment(data).format('DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm');
  } else {
      return data;
  }
});

ngModelController.$formatters.push(function(data) {
    //convert data from model format to view format
    if (data) {
      return moment(data, 'DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm');
    } else {
        return data;
    }
});

I also had to change all var ActiveDate (or format) to use ngModelController.$viewValue instead of ngModelController.$modelValue for active to work
using moment library you have already included
what is left I guess is to make that format configurable

[arunthilak]

@jhammersholt - Do you have a commit or fork which I could use?

[arunthilak]

@dalelotts - Hi, do you know when you can get this done ?

Many Thanks!

[dalelotts]

@arunthilak Have a look at the code in the develop branch - it adds modelType allowing you to store milliseconds (utc) - unix time is seconds but that would be easy enough to add as a modelType.

I have not released this code to production yet due to the fact that I have not had anyone volunteer to test all of the new modelTypes. Check them out and let me know how it works for you.