date

Makes a value of date type by parsing the text value given a date format pattern.

The pattern should be defined from the Java Date Format Specifications:

Letter	Date or time component	Example
G	Era designator	AD
y	Year	1996; 96
Y	Week year	2009; 09
M	Month in year	July; Jul; 07
w	Week in year	27
W	Week in month	2
D	Day in year	189
d	Day in month	10
F	Day of week in month	2
E	Day name in week	Tuesday; Tue
u	Day number of week (1 = Monday, …, 7 = Sunday)	1
a	Am/pm marker	PM
H	Hour in day (0-23)	0
k	Hour in day (1-24)	24
K	Hour in am/pm (0-11)	0
h	Hour in am/pm (1-12)	12
m	Minute in hour	30
s	Second in minute	55
S	Millisecond	978
z	Time zone	Pacific Standard Time; PST; GMT-08:00
Z	Time zone	-0800
X	Time zone	-08; -0800; -08:00

See also datetime.

Syntax

date(format)

Parameter	Description
format	The date format pattern to be used.

Examples

// example: 08/23/73
$('AVar').date('MM/dd/yy')

// example: Dec 31, 2009
$('AVar').date('MMM dd, yyyy')

// example: Wed, Jul 4, '01
$('AVar').date("EEE, MMM d, ''yy")