Globalization is the combination of internalization and localization. You can adapt the component to
various languages by parsing and formatting the date or
number Internationalization
, and also add culture specific customization and translation to the text localization
.
By default, DateTimePicker date format, week, month, time format and meridian names are specific to the American English
culture.
It utilizes the Essential JavaScript 2 Internationalization
package to parse and format the date object based on the culture by using the official UNICODE CLDR
JSON data. It provides the loadCldr
method to load culture specific CLDR JSON data. To use a different culture other
than English
, follow the steps below:
CLDR-Data
package by using the following command (installs all the CLDR JSON data). To
know more about CLDR-Data refer to the CLDR-Data
link.npm install cldr-data --save
Once the package is installed, you can find the culture
specific JSON data under the location \node_modules\cldr-data
.
app.ts
file.loadCldr
method
to load the culture specific CLDR JSON data
from the installed location to app.ts
file.Sunday
as the first day of week based on default culture (“en-US”). If you want to display the DateTimePicker with loaded culture’s first day of week, you need to import weekdata.json
file from the cldr-data/suppemental
as given in the code example.import { loadCldr } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { loadCldr } from "@syncfusion/ej2-base";
import * as gregorian from 'cldr-data/main/de/ca-gregorian.json';
import * as numbers from 'cldr-data/main/de/numbers.json';
import * as timeZoneNames from 'cldr-data/main/de/timeZoneNames.json';
import * as numberingSystems from 'cldr-data/supplemental/numberingSystems.json';
import * as weekData from 'cldr-data/supplemental/weekData.json';// To load the culture based first day of week
loadCldr(numberingSystems, gregorian, numbers, timeZoneNames, weekData);
if you are facing the error
/node_modules/cldr-data/main/de/*.json (1,1): unused expression, expected an assignment or function call
when you are adding the json files to render the culture sample, then add the below configuration in yourtslint.json
file
"linterOptions": {
"exclude": [
"*.json",
"**/*.json"
]
}
The
Localization
library allows you to localize default text content of the DateTimePicker. The DateTimePicker component has static text for today feature that can be changed to other cultures (Arabic, Deutsch, French, etc.) by defining thelocale
value and translation object.
Locale keywords | Text |
---|---|
today | Name of the button to choose Today date. |
placeholder | Hint to describe expected value in input element. |
English
, ensure that locale text for the concerned culture is loaded through load
method of L10n
class.//Load the L10n from ej2-base
import { L10n } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
//load the locale object to set the localized placeholder value
L10n.load({
'de': {
'datetimepicker': {
placeholder: 'Wählen Sie ein Datum und eine Uhrzeit aus',
today:'heute'
}
}
});
locale
property. In the following code example, the DateTimePicker is initialized
in German
culture with
corresponding localized text.The following example demonstrates the DateTimePicker in German
culture.
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
// Load the L10n, loadCldr from ej2-base
import { loadCldr, L10n } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { DateTimePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
// load the CLDR data files.
// Here we have referred local json files for preview purpose
import * as numberingSystems from './numberingSystems.json';
import * as gregorian from './ca-gregorian.json';
import * as numbers from './numbers.json';
import * as timeZoneNames from './timeZoneNames.json';
loadCldr(numberingSystems, gregorian, numbers, timeZoneNames);
L10n.load({
'de': {
'datetimepicker': {
placeholder:'Wählen Sie ein Datum und eine Uhrzeit aus',
today:'heute'
}
}
});
class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
private dateValue: Date = new Date("12/11/2017 1:00 AM");
render() {
return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" value={this.dateValue} locale='de'/>;
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Syncfusion React DatePicker</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
<meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
<script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id='element'>
<div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The DateTimePicker supports RTL (right-to-left) functionality for languages like Arabic and Hebrew to displays the text in the right-to-left direction.
Use enableRtl
property to set the RTL direction.
The following code example initialize the DateTimePicker component in Arabic
culture and
also explains how to set the localized text to
the placeholder using
load
method of
L10n class.
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
// Load the L10n, loadCldr from ej2-base
import { loadCldr, L10n } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { DateTimePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
// load the CLDR data files.
// Here we have referred local json files for preview purpose
import * as numberingSystems from './numberingSystems.json';
import * as gregorian from './ca-gregorian.json';
import * as numbers from './numbers.json';
import * as timeZoneNames from './timeZoneNames.json';
loadCldr(numberingSystems, gregorian, numbers, timeZoneNames);
L10n.load({
'ar': {
'datetimepicker': {
placeholder: 'حدد التاريخ والوقت',
today: 'اليوم'
}
}
});
class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {
render() {
return <DateTimePickerComponent id="datetimepicker" enableRtl={true} locale='ar'/>
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Syncfusion React DatePicker</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
<meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-react-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
<script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id='element'>
<div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>