Validate date in dd/mm/yyyy format using JQuery Validate

You don’t need the date validator. It doesn’t support dd/mm/yyyy format, and that’s why you are getting “Please enter a valid date” message for input like 13/01/2014. You already have the dateITA validator, which uses dd/mm/yyyy format as you need. Just like the date validator, your code for dateGreaterThan and dateLessThan calls new Date for … Read more

How to get today’s Date?

Since the methods are deprecated, you can do this with Calendar: And if you need a Date object in the end, simply call today.getTime()

Shortest way to print current year in a website

ears later, when doing something else I was reminded that Date() (without new) returns a string, and a way that’s one character shorter that my original below came to me: The first sequence of four digits in the string from Date() is specified to be the year. (That wasn’t specified behavior — though it was common — … Read more

How to convert a string to date in MySQL?

As was told at MySQL Using a string column with date text as a date field, you can do You can also handle these date strings in WHERE clauses. For example You can handle all kinds of date/time layouts this way. Please refer to the format specifiers for the DATE_FORMAT() function to see what you … Read more