Question

I have a problem with the jqgrid Date formatter.
in my DB table i have this dateformat “Ymd” like “20120219”.
Here the whole code for this column:

$col = array();
$col["title"] = "Date";
$col["name"] = "date_dem";
$col["width"] = "40";
$col["editable"] = false;
$col["editoptions"] = array("size"=>20);
$col["formatter"] = "date"; // format as date
$col["formatoptions"] = array("srcformat"=>'Ymd',"newformat"=>'d/m/Y');
$cols[] = $col;

When i use this code i get for every record the same output: “01/01/1970”.
Anybody knows this problem?

THX in advanced

Answer 1

Even if the information about the date are saved as Ymd without any separators you have to return from the server the information with some separator between year, month and day. The problem is that the current code of jqGrid first split the input date using '\', '/', ':', '_', ';', '.' or ',' as separator (see the line of code)

date = String(date).split(/[\\\/:_;.,\t\T\s-]/);

and then use the srcformat to decode it. So you can’t use formatter: "date" to decode the date like 20121009. I recommend you to convert 20121009 to 2012-10-09 on the server side and return from the server the date always in ISO 8601 format which is defalt format used by jqGrid. Alternatively you can use custom formatter to display the date.