jQuery Date Picker Input Date Format

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11104933/jquery-date-picker-input-date-format

by mpsingh2003

HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.8.21/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
Shown Field : <input id="thedate" type="text" /><br />

JavaScript

$(function(){
    $('#thedate').datepicker({ 
    });
    
    var d = new Date();
    var targetTimeOffset  = -4*60; //desired time zone, taken as GMT-4
    d.setMinutes(d.getMinutes() + d.getTimezoneOffset() + targetTimeOffset );
    $( "#thedate" ).datepicker( "option", "maxDate", d );
});