amp-date-display

Introduction

The amp-date-display component renders date information in various date formats and in different locales.

Setup

Include the amp-date-display component ...

<script async custom-element="amp-date-display" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-date-display-0.1.js"></script>

... and the amp-mustache component in the header

<script async custom-template="amp-mustache" src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0/amp-mustache-0.2.js"></script>

Basic usage

You must specify one of datetime, timestamp-ms, or timestamp-seconds attributes. This indicates the date and time to display.

The date information is rendered via an amp-mustache template.

The day, hour, minutes and seconds values are bound to {{day}}, {{hour}}, {{minute}} and {{second}} respectively.

Double digit format variants ({{dayTwoDigit}}, {{hourTwoDigit}}, {{minuteTwoDigit}} and {{secondTwoDigit}}) display these values with zero-padding on single digit values. Other values like {{iso}} are also available

<amp-date-display timestamp-seconds="2147483648" layout="fixed-height" height="20">
  <template type="amp-mustache">
      <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem">Y2K38</a> will be at {{iso}}
  </template>
</amp-date-display>

Available variables

All the variables that can be displayed are in the template below.

variable	value
day	{{day}}
dayName	{{dayName}}
dayNameShort	{{dayNameShort}}
dayPeriod	{{dayPeriod}}
dayTwoDigit	{{dayTwoDigit}}
hour	{{hour}}
hour12	{{hour12}}
hour12TwoDigit	{{hour12TwoDigit}}
hourTwoDigit	{{hourTwoDigit}}
iso	{{iso}}
minute	{{minute}}
minuteTwoDigit	{{minuteTwoDigit}}
month	{{month}}
monthName	{{monthName}}
monthNameShort	{{monthNameShort}}
monthTwoDigit	{{monthTwoDigit}}
second	{{second}}
secondTwoDigit	{{secondTwoDigit}}
year	{{year}}
yearTwoDigit	{{yearTwoDigit}}

<amp-date-display datetime="now" layout="fixed" width="360" height="590">
  <template type="amp-mustache">
    <table>
      <thead>
        <tr><th>variable</th><th>value</th></tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr><td>day</td><td>{{day}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>dayName</td><td>{{dayName}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>dayNameShort</td><td>{{dayNameShort}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>dayPeriod</td><td>{{dayPeriod}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>dayTwoDigit</td><td>{{dayTwoDigit}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>hour</td><td>{{hour}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>hour12</td><td>{{hour12}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>hour12TwoDigit</td><td>{{hour12TwoDigit}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>hourTwoDigit</td><td>{{hourTwoDigit}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>iso</td><td>{{iso}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>minute</td><td>{{minute}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>minuteTwoDigit</td><td>{{minuteTwoDigit}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>month</td><td>{{month}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>monthName</td><td>{{monthName}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>monthNameShort</td><td>{{monthNameShort}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>monthTwoDigit</td><td>{{monthTwoDigit}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>second</td><td>{{second}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>secondTwoDigit</td><td>{{secondTwoDigit}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>year</td><td>{{year}}</td></tr>
        <tr><td>yearTwoDigit</td><td>{{yearTwoDigit}}</td></tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
  </template>
</amp-date-display>

Locales

Internationalized month and weekday names can be configured by specifying a locale attribute.

For example, the amp-date-display components below show the same date information in German, French, Czech and English.

<amp-date-display datetime="now" locale="de" layout="fixed" width="360" height="20">
  <template type="amp-mustache">
    <div>de: {{dayName}} {{day}} {{monthName}} {{year}}</div>
  </template>
</amp-date-display>
<amp-date-display datetime="now" locale="fr" layout="fixed" width="360" height="20">
  <template type="amp-mustache">
    <div>fr: {{dayName}} {{day}} {{monthName}} {{year}}</div>
  </template>
</amp-date-display>
<amp-date-display datetime="now" locale="cs" layout="fixed" width="360" height="20">
  <template type="amp-mustache">
    <div>cs: {{dayName}} {{day}} {{monthName}} {{year}}</div>
  </template>
</amp-date-display>
<amp-date-display datetime="now" locale="en-GB" layout="fixed" width="360" height="20">
  <template type="amp-mustache">
    <div>en-GB: {{dayName}} {{day}} {{monthName}} {{year}}</div>
  </template>
</amp-date-display>

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Written by @cvializ