Timezone abbreviations are not recognized

[disaacs]

My datetime field displays the timezone using standard timezone abbreviation, instead of a numeric offest (e.g., as EST instead of -0500). For example:

07/01/12 16:34:47 EST

This is not parsed correctly by the timepicker, so when the timepicker is initialized all the sliders are set to 0, no matter what the displayed time is.

I have found that in the datetime.parseTime() function, at line 957 (of version 1.0.1), if I add \S+ to the timezone regex, then things work better. For example

.replace(/z{1}/ig, '(z|[-+]\\d\\d:?\\d\\d|\\S+)?')

This allows the time in the input field to be successfully matched.

This is not, however, the complete solution. Although the sliders are set correctly, the Time text is not. The timezone displayed in the Time text appears to always be -1100.

Time    16:34:47 -1100

I don't as yet know why. To work around the problem I simple set showTime to false.

[trentrichardson]

One thing you may be able to try is passing in your own timezoneList. Then set the values and labels to EST, CST, etc. Then maybe your changes will work. My only concern with adding your regex change to the timepicker is \S (non-whitespace) is a very vague token, and could potentially break certain time formats.

[trentrichardson]

Fixed in dev branch. Also check the demo file that is in the dev branch, there is an example of doing this.

[disaacs]

Thanks, it seems to be working. And thanks for the example also!