Feature request to have mtx-datetimepicker use midnight instead of current time when the type of picker does not include time

[Will-at-FreedomDev]

We switched over from mat-datepicker components which use midnight as the time component for the Date object, however this picker (in type="date" use cases) uses the users current time as the time component. I'd like to see all non-time related pickers to use midnight if possible (date, month, year).

I understand not changing the behavior to use midnight as that might be a breaking change people may not want to swallow, but can there be an option to override that default behavior? It would be great if we could do something like this: useMidnight="true".

Ideally, I'd rather see an option that defaults to using midnight and gives you a way to opt-in to using the current time useCurrentTime="true". I think most people would find it to be more intuitive for the time component of the Date object to be midnight, but maybe I'm wrong.

<mat-form-field>
  <mat-label>Choose a date</mat-label>
  <input [mtxDatetimepicker]="picker" matInput  />
  <mtx-datetimepicker #picker type="date" useMidnight="true" /> <!-- ideally, useMidnight="true" was the default behavior -->
  <mtx-datetimepicker-toggle [for]="picker" matSuffix />
</mat-form-field>

Thank you for your time and work on these libraries.

[Will-at-FreedomDev]

If there is a way to do this already with an existing API, please let me know. Our current workaround is to manually set the time component to midnight when we post these values, which is not the greatest way to handle this.

[schreibse]

Did you take a look at the MTX_DATETIMEPICKER_DEFAULT_OPTIONS injection token?
see https://ng-matero.github.io/extensions/components/datetimepicker/api

Maybe it already offers a way to set the default time? if not, adding a property to MtxDatetimepickerDefaultOptions interface in order to set the default time would be great to have indeed

[Will-at-FreedomDev]

I don't see anything on the interface that looks like it would do what I was asking, but I agree that this would probably be the best way to change this behavior. I would be happy with setting the "default time" via an injection token.