Where Have All The Good DatePickers Gone?

Is it just me, or is it hard to find a good jQuery-based date picker? Or maybe I'm just picky.

The widget needs to support selecting a date range (there goes most of them). And it needs to be able to support configuring a starting and ending time. And it has to support Themeroller (there goes whatever few remained).

So as it seems is starting to become a norm for me, I'm working on a custom jQuery widget. It's been provisionally named "LoneRangeSelector". It's for a custom web-app-calendar sort of thing.

Provisionally, here's my progress thus far...


The main goal is to make an interface that's quick and easy to setup the date-related parameters of an event, without having to enter 4 different fields (start date, start time, end date, end time).

The secondary goal is that as a byproduct of having a single widget, there is quite a bit less error checking that needs to be done (ie. it's impossible to type in an ending date that occurs before the starting date).

I actually re-created the calendar code instead of trying to modify jQuery UI's datepicker, though it does implement identical css classes so the Themeroller appearance is the same.

The lower portion has been one of the more challenging. I think the time slider needs to have some type of time indication on it, because just at first glance there's no way you konw that it spans midnight to midnight.

Concept: