Question

I’m using date picker. I’m trying to change the format of date but I got following error.

Unable to parse date specified in strtotime()

Here is what I have tried:

  $(function()
  {  
   $("#datepicker").datepicker({
      onSelect: function(dateText, inst)
      { 
       var x = dateText;
       var y= x.parseDate('yy-mm-dd', '2000-11-02');
       var z= $(this).datepicker('getDate');
      } 
     });
   }

I want the date in yy-mm-dd format.

Answer 1

Try:

$(function() {
    $("#datepicker").datepicker(
        {dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
            onSelect: function(dateText, inst){
                var theDate = new Date(Date.parse($(this).datepicker('getDate')));
                var dateFormatted = $.datepicker.formatDate('yy-mm-dd', theDate);
            }
        }
    );
});

Hope it helps