@bbc/psammead-calendars

psammead-calendars -

This package provides a utility to format calendar dates provided in a Moment object to other non-gregorian calendars. For now Jalaali is the only calendar which is being converted, more may be added in the future.

Installation

npm install @bbc/psammead-calendars --save

Calendars

Jalaali

Converts a Gregorian calendar date represented by a moment object into its Jalaali calendar equivalent and outputs it as a string to be used by other components. This helper relies on jalaali-js which contains the logic to carry out the conversions from Gregorian to Jalaali. Documentation of this dependency can be found here.

This helper currently only supports Pashto and Persian/Farsi Jalaali calendar month names and Eastern Arabic numerals (translated using psammead-locales).

Usage

Follow this template and replace CALENDAR_NAME:

import { CALENDAR_NAME } from "@bbc/psammead-calendars"

Jalaali Usage

import { jalaali } from "@bbc/psammead-calendars"

const nowMoment = moment().locale('fa');
const formattedDate = jalaali.formatDate(nowMoment);

The Jalaali formatter contains a function called formatDate(). This function takes a moment object as its argument, which needs to have ps or fa set as its locale. The function then uses the moment with its logic to return a string in a day, year, month format using Eastern Arabic numerals e.g. ۱۱ دی ۱۳۹۷.

If an unsupported moment or locale set on the moment is passed in, then the output will return null.

Contributing

Psammead is completely open source. We are grateful for any contributions, whether they be new components, bug fixes or general improvements. Please see our primary contributing guide which can be found at the root of the Psammead repository.

Code of Conduct

We welcome feedback and help on this work. By participating in this project, you agree to abide by the code of conduct. Please take a moment to read it.

License

Psammead is Apache 2.0 licensed.