DateTimePicker is a React component that renders a calendar and clock for date and time selection. The calendar and clock components can be accessed individually using the DatePicker and TimePicker components respectively.

Best practices

Date pickers should:

• Use smart defaults and highlight the current date.

Usage

Render a DateTimePicker.

import { useState } from 'react';
import { DateTimePicker } from '@wordpress/components';

const MyDateTimePicker = () => {
    const [ date, setDate ] = useState( new Date() );

    return (
        <DateTimePicker
            currentDate={ date }
            onChange={ ( newDate ) => setDate( newDate ) }
            is12Hour={ true }
        />
    );
};

Props

The component accepts the following props:

currentDate: Date | string | number | null

The current date and time at initialization. Optionally pass in a null value to specify no date is currently selected.

• Required: No
• Default: today’s date

onChange: ( date: string | null ) => void

The function called when a new date or time has been selected. It is passed the currentDate as an argument.

• Required: No

is12Hour: boolean

Whether we use a 12-hour clock. With a 12-hour clock, an AM/PM widget is displayed and the time format is assumed to be MM-DD-YYYY (as opposed to the default format DD-MM-YYYY).

• Type: bool
• Required: No
• Default: false

dateOrder: 'dmy' | 'mdy' | 'ymd'

The order of day, month, and year. This prop overrides the time format determined by is12Hour prop.

• Type: string
• Required: No
• Default: 'dmy'

isInvalidDate: ( date: Date ) => boolean

A callback function which receives a Date object representing a day as an argument, and should return a Boolean to signify if the day is valid or not.

• Required: No

onMonthPreviewed: ( date: string ) => void

A callback invoked when selecting the previous/next month in the date picker. The callback receives the new month date in the ISO format as an argument.

• Required: No

events: { date: Date }[]

List of events to show in the date picker. Each event will appear as a dot on the day of the event.

• Type: Array
• Required: No

startOfWeek: number

The day that the week should start on. 0 for Sunday, 1 for Monday, etc.

• Required: No
• Default: 0