Parsing dates from jQuery UI datepicker

Question

Hi,

I am using jQuery UI datepicker to allow the user to select dates.

This updates an input field in a form in the format:

dd/mm/yyyy

I am trying to use jQueryUI to then parse the date in a UNIX timestamp to check it is a date with the built in jQuery UI parseDate:

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker/parseDate

However i am not sure how to output a date in timestamp format from a string e.g. 13/05/1978?

I tried this:

$.datepicker.parseDate('@', '13/05/1978');

But it does not seem to work or i am reading the documentation wrong.

If i use Date.parse('13/05/1978') it returns the timestamp 284342400000 which i assume to be correct.

Basically i am trying to get a Date object from a string which is inserted to an input field by the jQuery UI datepicker.

Answer 1

This question was not well asked.

The real issue was answered here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3675007/jquery-datepicker-date-range-throwing-invalid-date-range-error-with-valid-dates