Question

I’m using the following datetimepicker which from my understanding is the jquery-ui datepicker that has been extended.

http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/

My issue is I want to display to the user am and pm times, but I want to format it differently so that when I submit it to a mysql database, the time format enters the standard “YY-mm-dd – hh:mm:ss” format.

This is the format that it currently inputs

Answer 1

For people with the same issue as the above, I received some good advice from the developer of the above plugin that the responsibility for formatting should belong in the middleware (ruby, php, python, etc). So after doing some searching I found the following gem and added to my Gemfile.

gem 'validates_timeliness'

This plugin relies on the timeliness gem and has many built in functions that accepts many different formats out of the box.

Add this to your model and you’re done:

validates_datetime :date_paid_on, :allow_blank => true

You may run into the scenario where you may need a custom parser. If so just add the following to your validates_timeliness.rb initializer.

config.parser.add_formats(:datetime, 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss tz')