Preset date/time on bootstrap datetimepicker

Question

Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/ek9c9ojx/3/

I tried numerous solutions from this question: set default time in bootstrap-datetimepicker

But none of them worked. They all cause the input to be empty and default to the placeholder text.

I tried the setDate(), setLocalDate(), and defaultDate routes but I can't find anything in the current documentation supporting these or any current methods that work to achieve this simple task.

None of these work:

var dateObj = new Date('2016-03-21T23:31:00');
// does not work, causes empty input/placeholder text
$("#startdatetime-from").data('datetimepicker').setDate(dateObj);
// does not work, causes empty input/placeholder text
$("#startdatetime-from").data('datetimepicker').setLocalDate(dateObj);


var dateObj = new Date('2016-03-21T23:31:00');
$('#new-challenge-date-time-picker').datetimepicker({
    minDate: moment(),
    defaultDate: dateObj // does not work, same symptoms as above
});

I also tried setting the value attribute of the #new-challenge-date-time-picker itself, but that did not work either.

Does anyone have the answer?

Answer 1

You can pass the date to "defaultDate" while initializing the picker. But minDate will override the defaultDate. So if you need minDate as well then set useCurrent to false

https://eonasdan.github.io/bootstrap-datetimepicker/Options/#mindate

https://eonasdan.github.io/bootstrap-datetimepicker/Options/#usecurrent

Try the below

   $(function() {

  var datePreset = $('#new-challenge-date-time-picker').attr('data-preset');
  var dateParts = datePreset.split(' ');
  var dateString = dateParts[0];
  var dateTime = dateParts[1];
  var dateTimeParts = dateTime.split(':');
  var dateHour = dateTimeParts[0];
  var dateMinutes = dateTimeParts[1];
  var dateAMPM = dateParts[2];
  var dateStringParts = dateString.split('/');
  var dateMonth = dateStringParts[0];
  var dateDay = dateStringParts[1];
  var dateYear = dateStringParts[2];

  var time = (dateAMPM == 'PM') ? (parseInt(dateHour) + 12) + ':' + dateMinutes : dateHour + ':' + dateMinutes;
  time += ':00';

  console.log(dateYear + '-' + dateMonth + '-' + dateDay + 'T' + time);
  var dateObj = new Date(dateYear + '-' + dateMonth + '-' + dateDay + 'T' + time);

  $('#new-challenge-date-time-picker').datetimepicker({
    minDate: moment(),
    defaultDate: dateObj,
     useCurrent:false
  });

  // $("#new-challenge-date-time-picker").data('datetimepicker').setDate(dateObj);


});