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HTML
<input class="datepicker" type="text">
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function () {
var dbDate = "2012-03-06";
var date2 = new Date(dbDate);
$(".datepicker").datepicker({
dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy'
}).datepicker('setDate', date2)
});