use created_date

src-ui/src/app/components/dashboard/widgets/saved-view-widget/saved-view-widget.component.html

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     </thead>
     <tbody>
       <tr *ngFor="let doc of documents" (click)="openDocumentsService.openDocument(doc)">
-        <td>{{doc.created | customDate}}</td>
+        <td>{{doc.created_date | customDate}}</td>
         <td>{{doc.title | documentTitle}}<app-tag [tag]="t" *ngFor="let t of doc.tags$ | async" class="ms-1" (click)="clickTag(t); $event.stopPropagation();"></app-tag></td>
       </tr>
     </tbody>

src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.html

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
                         <app-input-text #inputTitle i18n-title title="Title" formControlName="title" (keyup)="titleKeyUp($event)" [error]="error?.title"></app-input-text>
                         <app-input-number i18n-title title="Archive serial number" [error]="error?.archive_serial_number" formControlName='archive_serial_number'></app-input-number>
-                        <app-input-date i18n-title title="Date created" formControlName="created" [error]="error?.created"></app-input-date>
+                        <app-input-date i18n-title title="Date created" formControlName="created_date" [error]="error?.created"></app-input-date>
                         <app-input-select [items]="correspondents" i18n-title title="Correspondent" formControlName="correspondent" [allowNull]="true"
                             (createNew)="createCorrespondent($event)" [suggestions]="suggestions?.correspondents"></app-input-select>
                         <app-input-select [items]="documentTypes" i18n-title title="Document type" formControlName="document_type" [allowNull]="true"

src-ui/src/app/components/document-detail/document-detail.component.ts

@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ import {
 } from 'rxjs/operators'
 import { PaperlessDocumentSuggestions } from 'src/app/data/paperless-document-suggestions'
 import { FILTER_FULLTEXT_MORELIKE } from 'src/app/data/filter-rule-type'
-import { normalizeDateStr } from 'src/app/utils/date'
 import { QueryParamsService } from 'src/app/services/query-params.service'
 
 @Component({
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ export class DocumentDetailComponent
   documentForm: FormGroup = new FormGroup({
     title: new FormControl(''),
     content: new FormControl(''),
-    created: new FormControl(),
+    created_date: new FormControl(),
     correspondent: new FormControl(),
     document_type: new FormControl(),
     archive_serial_number: new FormControl(),
@@ -137,27 +136,8 @@ export class DocumentDetailComponent
   ngOnInit(): void {
     this.documentForm.valueChanges
       .pipe(takeUntil(this.unsubscribeNotifier))
-      .subscribe((changes) => {
+      .subscribe(() => {
         this.error = null
-        if (this.ogDate) {
-          try {
-            let newDate = new Date(normalizeDateStr(changes['created']))
-            newDate.setHours(
-              this.ogDate.getHours(),
-              this.ogDate.getMinutes(),
-              this.ogDate.getSeconds(),
-              this.ogDate.getMilliseconds()
-            )
-            this.documentForm.patchValue(
-              { created: newDate.toISOString() },
-              { emitEvent: false }
-            )
-          } catch (e) {
-            // catch this before we try to save and simulate an api error
-            this.error = { created: e.message }
-          }
-        }
-
         Object.assign(this.document, this.documentForm.value)
       })
 
@@ -223,25 +203,17 @@ export class DocumentDetailComponent
               },
             })
 
-          this.ogDate = new Date(normalizeDateStr(doc.created.toString()))
-
           // Initialize dirtyCheck
           this.store = new BehaviorSubject({
             title: doc.title,
             content: doc.content,
-            created: this.ogDate.toISOString(),
+            created_date: doc.created_date,
             correspondent: doc.correspondent,
             document_type: doc.document_type,
             archive_serial_number: doc.archive_serial_number,
             tags: [...doc.tags],
           })
 
-          // start with ISO8601 string
-          this.documentForm.patchValue(
-            { created: this.ogDate.toISOString() },
-            { emitEvent: false }
-          )
-
           this.isDirty$ = dirtyCheck(
             this.documentForm,
             this.store.asObservable()

src-ui/src/app/data/paperless-document.ts

@@ -32,8 +32,12 @@ export interface PaperlessDocument extends ObjectWithId {
 
   checksum?: string
 
+  // UTC
   created?: Date
 
+  // localized date
+  created_date?: Date
+
   modified?: Date
 
   added?: Date

src-ui/src/app/pipes/custom-date.pipe.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { DatePipe } from '@angular/common'
 import { Inject, LOCALE_ID, Pipe, PipeTransform } from '@angular/core'
 import { SettingsService, SETTINGS_KEYS } from '../services/settings.service'
-import { normalizeDateStr } from '../utils/date'
 
 const FORMAT_TO_ISO_FORMAT = {
   longDate: 'y-MM-dd',
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ export class CustomDatePipe implements PipeTransform {
       this.settings.get(SETTINGS_KEYS.DATE_LOCALE) ||
       this.defaultLocale
     let f = format || this.settings.get(SETTINGS_KEYS.DATE_FORMAT)
-    if (typeof value == 'string') value = normalizeDateStr(value)
     if (l == 'iso-8601') {
       return this.datePipe.transform(value, FORMAT_TO_ISO_FORMAT[f], timezone)
     } else {

src-ui/src/app/utils/date.ts

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-// see https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/issues/878 , JS Date does not
-// seem to accept these strings as valid dates so we must normalize offset
-export function normalizeDateStr(dateStr: string): string {
-  return dateStr.replace(/[\+-](\d\d):\d\d:\d\d/gm, `-$1:00`)
-}

src-ui/src/app/utils/ngb-iso-date-time-adapter.ts

@@ -5,11 +5,20 @@ import { NgbDateAdapter, NgbDateStruct } from '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap'
 export class ISODateTimeAdapter extends NgbDateAdapter<string> {
   fromModel(value: string | null): NgbDateStruct | null {
     if (value) {
-      let date = new Date(value)
-      return {
-        day: date.getDate(),
-        month: date.getMonth() + 1,
-        year: date.getFullYear(),
+      if (value.match(/\d\d\d\d\-\d\d\-\d\d/g)) {
+        const segs = value.split('-')
+        return {
+          year: parseInt(segs[0]),
+          month: parseInt(segs[1]),
+          day: parseInt(segs[2]),
+        }
+      } else {
+        let date = new Date(value)
+        return {
+          day: date.getDate(),
+          month: date.getMonth() + 1,
+          year: date.getFullYear(),
+        }
       }
     } else {
       return null
@@ -17,8 +26,6 @@ export class ISODateTimeAdapter extends NgbDateAdapter<string> {
   }
 
   toModel(date: NgbDateStruct | null): string | null {
-    return date
-      ? new Date(date.year, date.month - 1, date.day).toISOString()
-      : null
+    return date ? [date.year, date.month, date.day].join('-') : null
   }
 }

src/documents/models.py

@@ -279,6 +279,10 @@ class Document(models.Model):
     def thumbnail_file(self):
         return open(self.thumbnail_path, "rb")
 
+    @property
+    def created_date(self):
+        return timezone.localdate(self.created)
+
 
 class Log(models.Model):
 

src/documents/serialisers.py

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+import datetime
 import math
 import re
 
 import magic
+from dateutil import tz
+from django.conf import settings
 from django.utils.text import slugify
 from django.utils.translation import gettext as _
 from rest_framework import serializers
@@ -206,6 +209,7 @@ class DocumentSerializer(DynamicFieldsModelSerializer):
 
     original_file_name = SerializerMethodField()
     archived_file_name = SerializerMethodField()
+    created_date = serializers.DateField()
 
     def get_original_file_name(self, obj):
         return obj.get_public_filename()
@@ -216,6 +220,16 @@ class DocumentSerializer(DynamicFieldsModelSerializer):
         else:
             return None
 
+    def update(self, instance, validated_data):
+        if "created_date" in validated_data and "created" not in validated_data:
+            new_datetime = datetime.datetime.combine(
+                validated_data.get("created_date"),
+                datetime.time(0, 0, 0, 0, tz.gettz(settings.TIME_ZONE)),
+            )
+            instance.created = new_datetime
+            instance.save()
+        return instance
+
     class Meta:
         model = Document
         depth = 1
@@ -227,6 +241,7 @@ class DocumentSerializer(DynamicFieldsModelSerializer):
             "content",
             "tags",
             "created",
+            "created_date",
             "modified",
             "added",
             "archive_serial_number",