jQuery datepicker validating date ranges between two dates in any format

Question

Hi,

This question is an extension of this one:

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

The latest jsFiddle is located here:

http://jsfiddle.net/mQRaj/7/

The issue i am having is as follows. I have two datepickers that are going to be localised into many languages, therefore will have many date formats possible as their output.

My thinking was to take the output from the datepicker inputs and then convert it into a 'dd/mm/yy' format with the dateFormat method:

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

This seems to work fine for datepickers where the date format is just numbers e.g. 'mm/dd/yy', 'yy-mm-dd' but not when you use formats that output Month names etc.

I have struggled to get this far and am rather sick of looking at Unix timestamps now :)

It returns NaN which i can understand but do not know how to fix. Apologies for the messy code.

Answer 1

This has been answered here:

http://forum.jquery.com/topic/validating-date-range-in-any-format-with-jquery-ui-datepickers#14737000001389001