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Hi I tried to modify the dates for the YUI calendar in the format DD/MM/YYYY but it still displays as MM/DD/YYYY
I used the examples frrom the localized calendars.
Here is the script:
http://www.sabina-ferien.de/templates/vj-08/script/cal2.js

Could you tell me please what am I doing wrong ?

Thanks,

Hi Matt,

I swapped the bits as you advised and it worked.

Thanks a lot,

Not sure I follow how the string construction you mention fits in with displaying the calendar, but based on your js file...


var xy = Dom.getXY(tar),
date = Dom.get(tar).value;
if (date) {

cal1.cfg.setProperty('selected', date);
cal1.cfg.setProperty('pagedate', new Date(date), true);

1. There's no date validation going on when you pass the value to the calendar's selected or pagedate properties. The calendar will attempt to parse string dates passed in to selected and page date based on DATE_FIELD_DELIMITER, MDY_DATE_POSITION, MDY_MONTH_POSITION and MDY_YEAR_POSITION values.

2. There's also no validation going on when you pass "date" to new Date(date), which is probably not resulting in a valid Date object (e.g. new Date("foo")). The Date constructor expects epoch values, or strings defined by https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_J ... Date/parse.

It seems like it would be a good idea to make public the _parseDate, _parseDates etc. methods which the Calendar has, so these can be used to validate string input, before passing it to Calendar, but in the interim, you'd need to do the validation yourself.

Hope that helps,
Satyen

> ... Third edit: you might want to listen to Satyen more than me!

I've come across a number of Matt's responses in working through the forum list today, and he's a perfectly good person to listen to. So don't listen to him telling you to listen to me more than listening to him. Guess it's time for lunch.