DateJS JavaScript Library

November 28, 2007


A JavaScript date library lands with a, “Kaboom”. Built with brilliant colors, I mean strings, or strings, dates and numbers, whatever. The point is that you can pass in human readable text and it will convert it into a JavaScript date object. For example I entered in, “Next February” and it returned February 2008:



This date library can read practically everything in 150 cultures/countries! Okay well maybe not everything. “Your Mom” doesn’t work, who figured:



I am really pumped to integrate this date library with jQuery UI Datepicker. In fact, the author of datejs came up to me at The Ajax Experience in Boston to tell me about his date library and talked about working together. It has been released, and I am impressed.

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