How to get day of the week using date with dd-mm-yy format

Asked Mar 01 '19 at 12:15

Active Mar 01 '19 at 14:48

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I have set an input to be a date picker using datepicker() on document ready and I have set the format to be dd-mm-yy.

When the input is changed I get the value of the input with Date().

My issue is that Date() is expecting a format of mm-dd-yy so when I use getDay() test to see which day it is, it returns the wrong value.

How can I make this code work using the dd-mm-yy format?

jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    if( $('#booking_form').length ){
        $('#date input')
            .prop('readonly', true)
            .datepicker({ dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy' });
    }

    $('#date input').change(function(){
        date_function();
    });

    function date_function(){
        //getting the date  
        var date = new Date( $('#date input').val() );


        if( date.getDay() === 0 || date.getDay() === 1 ){
            $('#custom_error').show();
        } else {
            $('#custom_error').hide();
        }
    }
});

edited Mar 01 '19 at 14:48

freedomn-m

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asked Mar 01 '19 at 12:15

Reece

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Short answer: you can't use UK date formats in Date object. They have to be in US format. See the duplicate ways to convert them – Rory McCrossan Mar 01 '19 at 12:17
thanks, I'll look into it – Reece Mar 01 '19 at 12:18
The datepicker plugin should provide a method to get/set the date directly, not by using the input's value, eg `var date = $("#date input").datepicker("getDate")` – freedomn-m Mar 01 '19 at 14:15
Depends on your datepicker, but a better duplicate may be: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4919890/2181514 – freedomn-m Mar 01 '19 at 14:16
@RoryMcCrossan I got my answer from the first link. Thanks – Reece Mar 01 '19 at 14:56

How to get day of the week using date with dd-mm-yy format

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