function prepareConfig()

in charts/shared/moment.js [2947:2978]


function prepareConfig(config) {
    var input = config._i,
        format = config._f;

    config._locale = config._locale || getLocale(config._l);

    if (input === null || (format === undefined && input === '')) {
        return createInvalid({ nullInput: true });
    }

    if (typeof input === 'string') {
        config._i = input = config._locale.preparse(input);
    }

    if (isMoment(input)) {
        return new Moment(checkOverflow(input));
    } else if (isDate(input)) {
        config._d = input;
    } else if (isArray(format)) {
        configFromStringAndArray(config);
    } else if (format) {
        configFromStringAndFormat(config);
    } else {
        configFromInput(config);
    }

    if (!isValid(config)) {
        config._d = null;
    }

    return config;
}