Get date format from field

[McShaman]

I want to be able to get a date object form a date field. I am aware I can do this:

var value = getField("date").value;
var date = util.scand("yyyy-mm-dd", sDate);

But this requires that I know what the date format is.

I want to be able to get a date object from a date fields without having to bake the formatting string into the script.

Any help would be appreciated

[try67]

Not possible.

[Bernd Alheit]

You can try:

var date = new Date(Date.parse(sDate));

[try67]

Without knowing the format any parsing method is useless. How would it know if "01-03-16" is January 3rd 2016, or March 1st 2016, or March 16th 2001 or March 16th 1901, etc.?

[Bernd Alheit]

It works for the format yyyy-mm-dd.

[try67]

I want to be able to get a date object from a date fields without having to bake the formatting string into the script.

[Bernd Alheit]

For my solution you don't need the format string "yyyy-mm-dd".

[try67]

It's still "baked" into the preassumptions the Parse method is making, though, so in effect it's the same.

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

You can use the JavaScript Date object to parse your date string:

var sDate = getField("date").value; 

var newDate = new Date(Date.parse(sDate));

You can find details about how this works here: Date.parse() - JavaScript | MDN

[McShaman]

the only thing that seems to differentiate a date picker field and a text field is the built in date format option.

Is there a way that I could call the built in date formatting action from within a custom format script allowing me to specify the format while still displaying the field as a date picker?

[Joel_Geraci]

You'll need to create two separate fields one with the custom format and one with the date format. Then you just have them update each other via a script.