datepicker: support for Hijri or Jalali or other international calendar in datepicker

[araselahi]

I think making dateUtil.js injectable, would provide calendar support functionality for Hijri or Jalali or other international calendars in datepicker. Adding fromGregorian and toGregorian date functions to $mdDateLocale service may provide more abstract solution. These functions could be consequently used in dateUtil.js to provide localized date calculation. Currently $mdDateLocale just provide messages, formatters, and parsers for date internationalization but not date conversion.

I volunteer to produce dateUtil or $mdDateLocale for Hijri or Jalali. Please help me how.

[araselahi]

angular/components#2519
Support for Hijri or Jalali or other international calendar in datepicker

[Splaktar]

It looks like there is some support for this in Angular Material. We don't have the resources to investigate or support this in AngularJS Material.

[kasun90]

Can you please direct me to the api where we can input a custom calendar?

[araselahi]

@kasun90 it is in the Angular Material library not in AngularJS Material:

• Support for Hijri or Jalali or other international calendar in datepicker components#2519
• https://material.angular.io/components/datepicker/overview

[Batoul-Ammar]

It was surprisingly supported by angular material since they support localization you can find that on their documentation
datepicker-locale

The only issue I have faced is that I have to discover the right local to generate Hijri dates 'ar-sa'

this._adapter.setLocale('ar-sa');