Converter for .net style json date strings like /Date(1445301615000-0330)/ to JS Date object with timezone support.

Features

• Timezone parsing
• Shifting to local timezone
• Default timezone setup
• Compatible with npm|bower

Installation

npm install --save json-dotnet-date

or

bower install --save json-dotnet-date
<script type="text/javascript" src="json-dotnet-date.min.js"></script>

Options

useInputTimeZone {true|false}

Enables input timezone parsing.

var parse = require("json-dotnet-date")({
    useInputTimeZone:true
}).parse;

 // "2015-10-20T00:40:15.000-0330" => "2015-10-19T21:10:15.000Z"
var date = parse("/Date(1445301615000-0330)/")
// date equals to new Date(1445301615000)

defaultInputTimeZoneOffset {int} minutes

Offset for input date if useInputTimeZone not used

var parse = require("json-dotnet-date")({
    defaultInputTimeZoneOffset:130
}).parse;

// "2015-10-20T00:40:15.000Z" => "2015-10-19T22:30:15.000Z"
var date = parse("/Date(1445301615000)/") 
// date equals to new Date(1445293815000)

shiftToLocalTimeZone: {true|false}

Allows shift date to local timezone

// local timezone is UTC-0300 
var parse = require("json-dotnet-date")({
    shiftToLocalTimeZone:true
}).parse;

 // "2015-10-20T00:40:15.000Z" => "2015-10-19T21:40:15.000Z"
var date = parse("/Date(1445301615000)/")
// date equals to new Date(1445290815000)

API

parse({string}):{Date}

Parses input string to JS Date object

testStr({string}):{bool}

Validates that input string have valid format

format({Date}):{string}

Format date to .net json date string

testObject({Object}):{bool}

Validates that input object is JS Date

options

Reference to options object

Build

Use console command

gulp

Test

Use console command

gulp test

or

mocha