AUI DatePicker setDate testing

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//aui-cdn.atlassian.com/aui-adg/5.8.14/css/aui.css">
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//aui-cdn.atlassian.com/aui-adg/5.8.14/js/aui.js"></script>
<script src="//aui-cdn.atlassian.com/aui-adg/5.8.14/js/aui-datepicker.js"></script>
<input class="aui-date-picker" id="aui-date-picker" type="date" min="2018-11-6"/>

JavaScript

var timerDate = AJS.$('#aui-date-picker').datePicker({
    overrideBrowserDefault: true,
    //dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd'
});

timerDate.setDate(new Date());
timerDate.setDate('2015-07-22');