# amsul/pickadate.js

The mobile-friendly, responsive, and lightweight jQuery date & time input picker.

Repository: https://github.com/amsul/pickadate.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pickadatejs
Homepage: http://amsul.ca/pickadate.js
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: picker, date, time, calendar
Last push: 2023-07-14T10:02:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5039, "days_push": 1146, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7651, forks 982 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:02.181408+00:00)

## What it is
A lightweight, mobile-friendly jQuery plugin providing date and time input pickers with responsive themes. It includes an extensible API, ARIA/WCAG accessibility support, and translations for over 40 languages.

## Use cases
- add a date picker to a form input
- let users pick a time with configurable intervals
- mobile-friendly calendar input for jQuery sites
- localized date picker in multiple languages
- accessible date input for WCAG compliance
- disable specific dates in a booking form

## When to choose
- your project already uses jQuery 1.7+
- you need a small, responsive date/time picker with broad browser support including legacy IE8
- you need out-of-the-box translations and accessibility

## When to avoid
- you use a modern framework like React or Vue with native date pickers or framework-specific components
- you want actively developed features - the project is in maintenance mode
- you want a dependency-free vanilla JavaScript picker

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, form-handling, internationalization
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery, date-picker, time-picker, calendar, responsive, mobile-friendly, accessibility, localization, javascript

## Member repositories
- amsul/pickadate.js (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.181408+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:36:45.463098+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/amsul/pickadate.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.181408+00:00, sha 912489721f62)
  - homepage: http://amsul.ca/pickadate.js (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:14.423106+00:00, sha b4926a7717ab)
  - site_page: https://amsul.ca/pickadate.js/date (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:14.426946+00:00, sha d48f30703272)
  - site_page: https://amsul.ca/pickadate.js/time (fetched 2026-08-29T08:32:14.429695+00:00, sha 963028443f91)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.