Javascript slider that scrolls along both dates and times

Question

I've seen some nice examples of jQuery sliders that select date ranges: http://ghusse.github.com/jQRangeSlider/stable/demo/

And time ranges: http://marcneuwirth.com/blog/2011/05/22/revisiting-the-jquery-ui-time-slider/

But I'm looking for something that will be able to select date ranges down to the month, day, minute. It would be great to be able to have it as both a date range selector and a plain slider.

Has anyone seen an implementation like that? Would the normal jQuery UI slider using Unix time as my values make sense?

Answer 1

Here is my fiddle for this (I was also looking for something and then decided to create one): http://jsfiddle.net/Lcrsd3jt/45/

html:

  <script type='text/javascript' src='//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.0.2.js'></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
    <div id="time-range">
        <p>Time Range: <span class="slider-time"></span> - <span class="slider-time2"></span>
        </p>
        <div class="sliders_step1">
            <div id="slider-range"></div>
        </div>
    </div>

js:

var dt_from = "2014/11/01 00:34:44";
var dt_to = "2014/11/24 16:37:43";

$('.slider-time').html(dt_from);
$('.slider-time2').html(dt_to);
var min_val = Date.parse(dt_from)/1000;
var max_val = Date.parse(dt_to)/1000;

function zeroPad(num, places) {
  var zero = places - num.toString().length + 1;
  return Array(+(zero > 0 && zero)).join("0") + num;
}
function formatDT(__dt) {
    var year = __dt.getFullYear();
    var month = zeroPad(__dt.getMonth()+1, 2);
    var date = zeroPad(__dt.getDate(), 2);
    var hours = zeroPad(__dt.getHours(), 2);
    var minutes = zeroPad(__dt.getMinutes(), 2);
    var seconds = zeroPad(__dt.getSeconds(), 2);
    return year + '-' + month + '-' + date + ' ' + hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds;
};


$("#slider-range").slider({
    range: true,
    min: min_val,
    max: max_val,
    step: 10,
    values: [min_val, max_val],
    slide: function (e, ui) {
        var dt_cur_from = new Date(ui.values[0]*1000); //.format("yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss");
        $('.slider-time').html(formatDT(dt_cur_from));

        var dt_cur_to = new Date(ui.values[1]*1000); //.format("yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii:ss");                
        $('.slider-time2').html(formatDT(dt_cur_to));
    }
});

css:

#time-range p {
    font-family:"Arial", sans-serif;
    font-size:14px;
    color:#333;
}
.ui-slider-horizontal {
    height: 8px;
    background: #D7D7D7;
    border: 1px solid #BABABA;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #FFF, 0 1px 0 #CFCFCF inset;
    clear: both;
    margin: 8px 0;
    -webkit-border-radius: 6px;
    -moz-border-radius: 6px;
    -ms-border-radius: 6px;
    -o-border-radius: 6px;
    border-radius: 6px;
}
.ui-slider {
    position: relative;
    text-align: left;
}
.ui-slider-horizontal .ui-slider-range {
    top: -1px;
    height: 100%;
}
.ui-slider .ui-slider-range {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 1;
    height: 8px;
    font-size: .7em;
    display: block;
    border: 1px solid #5BA8E1;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 0 #AAD6F6 inset;
    -moz-border-radius: 6px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 6px;
    -khtml-border-radius: 6px;
    border-radius: 6px;
    background: #81B8F3;
    background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0idXRmLTgi…pZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMCUiIGZpbGw9InVybCgjZ3JhZCkiIC8+PC9zdmc+IA==');
    background-size: 100%;
    background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0, 50% 100%, color-stop(0%, #A0D4F5), color-stop(100%, #81B8F3));
    background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #A0D4F5, #81B8F3);
    background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #A0D4F5, #81B8F3);
    background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #A0D4F5, #81B8F3);
    background-image: linear-gradient(top, #A0D4F5, #81B8F3);
}
.ui-slider .ui-slider-handle {
    border-radius: 50%;
    background: #F9FBFA;
    background-image: url('data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0idXRmLTgi…pZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMCUiIGZpbGw9InVybCgjZ3JhZCkiIC8+PC9zdmc+IA==');
    background-size: 100%;
    background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0, 50% 100%, color-stop(0%, #C7CED6), color-stop(100%, #F9FBFA));
    background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #C7CED6, #F9FBFA);
    background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #C7CED6, #F9FBFA);
    background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #C7CED6, #F9FBFA);
    background-image: linear-gradient(top, #C7CED6, #F9FBFA);
    width: 22px;
    height: 22px;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 2px 3px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6), 0 -1px 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset, 0 1px 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) inset;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 2px 3px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6), 0 -1px 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset, 0 1px 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) inset;
    box-shadow: 0 2px 3px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6), 0 -1px 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset, 0 1px 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9) inset;
    -webkit-transition: box-shadow .3s;
    -moz-transition: box-shadow .3s;
    -o-transition: box-shadow .3s;
    transition: box-shadow .3s;
}
.ui-slider .ui-slider-handle {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: 2;
    width: 22px;
    height: 22px;
    cursor: default;
    border: none;
    cursor: pointer;
}
.ui-slider .ui-slider-handle:after {
    content:"";
    position: absolute;
    width: 8px;
    height: 8px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    top: 50%;
    margin-top: -4px;
    left: 50%;
    margin-left: -4px;
    background: #30A2D2;
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 1px 1px rgba(22, 73, 163, 0.7) inset, 0 1px 0 0 #FFF;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 1px 1px rgba(22, 73, 163, 0.7) inset, 0 1px 0 0 white;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 1px 1px rgba(22, 73, 163, 0.7) inset, 0 1px 0 0 #FFF;
}
.ui-slider-horizontal .ui-slider-handle {
    top: -.5em;
    margin-left: -.6em;
}
.ui-slider a:focus {
    outline:none;
}

You need to treat date-time as timestamp and just use standard slider for integer, recalculating date-time for the input (or whatever else) on the fly on slider move event.

Answer 2

In case anyone finds this thread, I was able to accomplish this by converting my time stamps to unix time and then breaking up my data by month. The current month's slider expands to the full-width of the screen so you can select as much as possible by scrubbing. Arrow keys accomplish the rest.