DayPilot is a standalone library and it doesn't require jQuery.
However, it works nice with jQuery:
<script src="scripts/jquery-2.1.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="scripts/daypilot-all.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <div id="dp"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> var dp = $("#dp").daypilotScheduler({ cellWidth: 40, eventHeight: 25, headerHeight: 25, startDate: new DayPilot.Date("2013-03-25").firstDayOfMonth(), cellGroupBy: "Month", days: 31, cellDuration: 1440, // one day resources: [ { name: "Room A", id: "A" }, { name: "Room B", id: "B" }, { name: "Room C", id: "C" } ] }); </script>