How to set datetime on datetime-local via jQuery

Question

I have datetime-local html control on my form and I need to set date and time on it dynamically via JS or jQuery. How can I do it?

Answer 1

I wrote a jQuery method that sets the current UTC time. It's useful for initializing datetime and datetime-local input fields.

Here's how you would use it to initialize a field.

$('input[type="datetime"]').setNow();

Or pass an argument of true to only set fields with no value.

$('input[type="datetime"]').setNow(true);