transform 2 digit year to 4 digit year

[leela]

Hi,

 When the user enters a value manually in the datebox field as 2/2/14, right now the calendar points to Feb 2nd 1914.
 How can I instruct it to point to 20th century? Also if the user enters the value as 2/2/14,
 it should be transformed to mm/dd/yyyy as 02/02/2014. How can I achieve this?

[stworthy]

To custom the default behavior of datebox, you have to override the 'formatter' and 'parser' functions. Try the code below:

Code:

$('#dd').datebox({
	formatter:function(date){
		var y = date.getFullYear();
		var m = date.getMonth()+1;
		var d = date.getDate();
		return (d<10?('0'+d):d) + '/' + (m<10?('0'+m):m) + '/' + y;
	},
	parser:function(s){
		if (!s) return new Date();
		var ss = (s.split('/'));
		var d = parseInt(ss[0],10);
		var m = parseInt(ss[1],10);
		var y = parseInt(ss[2],10);
		y = parseInt('2000'.substr(0, 4-String(y).length)+y);
		if (!isNaN(y) && !isNaN(m) && !isNaN(d)){
			return new Date(y,m-1,d);
		} else {
			return new Date();
		}

	}
})

[leela]

Hi,

 When the user enters the value as 2/3/14 manually,
 how do I transform and display it to mm/dd/yyyy format as 02/02/2014?
 Is it possible?

Thanks in advance!

[leela]

I did the following to make the formatter work for both selected date from calendar, and user entered input and also apply validation for both

Code:

onHidePanel:function(){
     $(this).datebox('setValue', validateDate($(this).datebox('getValue')));
}

function validateDate(value){
	if (!value){
		return;
	}
	var date;
	var ss = (value.split('/'));
	var m = parseInt(ss[0],10);
	var d = parseInt(ss[1],10);
	var y = parseInt(ss[2],10);
	y = parseInt('2000'.substr(0, 4-String(y).length)+y);
	if (!isNaN(y) && !isNaN(m) && !isNaN(d)){
		date = new Date(y,m-1,d);
	} else {
		return;
	}
	if(isNaN(date.getFullYear())){  
		   return;
	}
	var s = dateFormatter(date);
	return s;
}

function dateFormatter(date){
		var y = date.getFullYear();
		y = parseInt('2000'.substr(0, 4-String(y).length)+y);
		var m = date.getMonth()+1;
		var d = date.getDate();
		return  (m<10?('0'+m):m) + '/' + (d<10?('0'+d):d) + '/' + y;
}

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