Feature request: Add national islamic calendar support for flatpickr

[wajnberg]

Use this template if you want to request a new feature, or a change to an existing feature.

If you are reporting a bug or problem, please use the bug template instead.

Summary

Support for Hijri calendar as supported in other date picker such as Dojo:
https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dojox/date/islamic.html

Justification

We need Hijri calendar in the Watson Assistant product

Desired UX and success metrics

"Must have" functionality

Yes

Specific timeline issues / requests

Available extra resources

What resources do you have to assist this effort?

I already added the support for Hijri calendar in my repo: https://github.com/wajnberg/national-flatpickr

@tonydiaz FYI

[asudoh]

Hi @wajnberg would you want to try to be in sync with Flatpickr core on this? Thanks!

[stale]

We've marked this issue as stale because there hasn't been any activity for a couple of weeks. If there's no further activity on this issue in the next three days then we'll close it. Thanks for your contributions.

[wajnberg]

Please find in the following link flatpickr/flatpickr#1526
the intents of flatpickr core team about this defect

Thank you

[wajnberg]

FYI @tonydiaz

[carbon-bot]

Hi there! 👋 If you're wondering why this issue was moved, we're currently updating our repo structure so that every package is found in the same project.

This should not have any impact for you, but we wanted to give you a heads up in case you were wondering what is going on. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us on Slack or contact us at: carbon@us.ibm.com. Thanks!

[dakahn]

We're dependent on Flatpickr for this kind of feature -- we can track the progress on developing this plugin over there. 👍