From f09727638806b356d8682732ed42c55da6ad99c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Liam DeBeasi <liamdebeasi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:46:56 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(datetime): add additional checks for placeholders in
 angular (#17774)

---
 core/src/components/datetime/datetime.tsx | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/src/components/datetime/datetime.tsx b/core/src/components/datetime/datetime.tsx
index 0e8431b96e..5a3aff172e 100644
--- a/core/src/components/datetime/datetime.tsx
+++ b/core/src/components/datetime/datetime.tsx
@@ -542,7 +542,11 @@ export class Datetime implements ComponentInterface {
     // create the text of the formatted data
     const template = this.displayFormat || this.pickerFormat || DEFAULT_FORMAT;
 
-    if (this.value === undefined || this.value === null) { return; }
+    if (
+      this.value === undefined ||
+      this.value === null ||
+      this.value.length === 0
+    ) { return; }
 
     return renderDatetime(template, this.datetimeValue, this.locale);
   }