jQuery UI datepicker help

cokecan · 20 Apr 2009 at 09:34

Hey Guys

I've got the datepicker setup on a page and I want to set a <p> tag to the current date when the page loads but I'm having some trouble getting it working. I've setup the onSelect Event to change the contents of the <p> tag to show the date from what ever day was clicked on, this works great and is formatted as D, d M yy:

Mon, 20 Apr 2009

I've tried using the getDate method which does get the current date but I can't seem to format this to D, d M yy. Instead it displays:

Mon Apr 20 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Whitman · 20 Apr 2009 at 09:52

Does this help? http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker#option-dateFormat

cokecan · 20 Apr 2009 at 11:50

unfortunately not

I've allready got the date format set (thats how I have the onSelect event to output D, d M yy, by using dateFormat: 'D, d M yy') but it doesnt seem to have any effect on the getDate method

Pho · 20 Apr 2009 at 12:26

Try parseDate on the value you get from getDate().

Also: hi. Ony day I will get around to messaging you on MSN again.
- Andrew (who you went to Uni with

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cokecan · 20 Apr 2009 at 19:29

Dude! I had no idea you were on OcUK?

I'll give the parseDate a go. not sure how I missed that, both me and Ben missed it! lol