5.x - New-UDDataGridColumn dateTime type

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Version: 5.0.14

Hi friends!

We are working with a DataGrid component that is currently reading datetime objects from a database. It is returned from the database as a string, then cast to a PS [datetime] object before fed into the data grid (where, on render, it is cast back to a [string] for formatting). I would like to use the -Type flag on New-UDDataGridColumn to provide different filtering options than the ones for a string, hopefully ones more fitting for a datetime object such as prior to and after. When using -Type "dateTime" however, I’m thrown a JS error that the MUI dateTime column type only takes Date objects as values.

So:

  1. How can I coerce the PS [datetime] into a JS Date object efficiently? Does that simply require invoking JS to create a new Date()?
  2. Would the column filters update as I expect, providing date filtering?

Tagging @adam as this may be a feature request, or maybe even a bug?