Date Parser

Custom Date Parser in Elm This package is intended to work alongside with rluiten/elm-date-extra

Format

This library uses the date format pattern from: https://github.com/rluiten/elm-date-extra/blob/8.2.0/DocFormat.md

• %Y - 4 digit year, zero-padded
• %m - Zero-padded month of year, e.g. "07" for July
• %_m - Space-padded month of year, e.g. " 7" for July
• %-m - Month of year, e.g. "7" for July
• %B - Full month name, e.g. "July"
• %^B - Uppercase full month name, e.g. "JULY"
• %b - Abbreviated month name, e.g. "Jul"
• %^b - Uppercase abbreviated month name, e.g. "JUL"
• %d - Zero-padded day of month, e.g "02"
• %-d - Day of month, e.g "2"
• %-@d - Day of Month with language idiom suffix Day of month, e.g "2nd"
• this currently only does this in english language
• %e - Space-padded day of month, e.g " 2"
• %@e - Space-padded Day of Month with language idiom suffix, e.g " 2nd"
• this currently only does this in english language
• %A - Day of week in full, e.g. "Wednesday"
• %^A - Uppercase Day of week in full, e.g. "WEDNESDAY"
• %a - Day of week, abbreviated to three letters, e.g. "Wed"
• %^a - Uppercase day of week, abbreviated to three letters, e.g. "WED"
• %H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, zero-padded
• %-H - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, no padding
• %k - Hour of the day, 24-hour clock, space-padded
• %I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, zero-padded
• %-I - Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, no padding
• %l - (lower ell) Hour of the day, 12-hour clock, space-padded
• %p - AM or PM
• %P - am or pm
• %M - Minute of the hour, zero-padded
• %S - Second of the minute, zero-padded
• %L - Milliseconds of a second, length 3 zero-padded
• %z - time zone offset format "(+/-)HHMM"
• %:z - time zone offset format "(+/-)HH:MM"
• %% - produces a %

Example:

DateParser.parse Date.Extra.Config.Config_en_us "%d/%m/%Y" "31/12/2017"
DateParser.parse Date.Extra.Config.Config_en_us "%d/%m/%Y %I:%M %P" "31/12/2017 09:30 AM"

Development info

Running tests:

npm install
npm test