Question

What would be the easy way of achieving such below? selected_date comes from django context as a python date :

<script type="text/javascript">
    var selected_year = {{ selected_date|date:"Y" }}
    var selected_month = {{ selected_date|date:"m" }} - 1;
    var selected_day = {{ selected_date|date:"d"}}
    var selected_date = new Date(selected_year, selected_month, selected_day);
    alert(selected_date);
</script>

Answer 1

I’ve had a lot of success with the isoformat function in python:

var selected_date = new Date("{{ selected_date.isoformat }}")