Date with format mm/dd/yyyy

Question

I have my date coming in through the page parameters:

custDelDate = ApexPages.currentPage().getParameters().get('delDate'); 

I converted this to date since one of my column in the table requires a date datatype. I did this by the below step:

custDeliveryDate = Date.parse(custDelDate);

Now, in my table it looks as below:

Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 GMT 2014.

I can format the date to mm/dd/yyyy and this returns me a strting, but I need a date datatype(with format dd/mm/yyyy) to suffice the below need of my inputText in the VisualForce page:

<apex:column headerValue="RRD Approved Start">
<apex:inputText id="rrdApprovedStart"     value="{!d.rrdApprovedStart}"  
onfocus="DatePicker.pickDate(true, '{!$Component.rrdApprovedStart}',    false);"/>  
<c:DatePickerComponent dateFieldId="{!$Component.rrdApprovedStart}" /> –

Please help me with this. I am so badly stuck with this issue.

Thanks, Priyanka

Answer 1

Instead of using a custom formatted date and a call to a Javascript Datepicker function, I would use an Apex controller with a reference to a particular date field. Then in your Visualforce page, you would reference the date field with <apex:inputField value="{!myObj.MyDateField__c}" /> and it will take care of the formatting, date picking for you.

If you don't have a field you can use in your controller, you could always instantiate a standard record with a date field, (say Contact and Birthdate), and use those to pass the information back and forth from the Apex controller to the VF page.

Answer 2

If you want to display date in dd/mm/yyyy format regardless of the format stored in backend then just follow below

<apex:column headerValue="BirthDate">
        <apex:outputText value="{0,date,dd-MM-yyyy}">
                   <apex:param value="{!Mem.Birthdate__c}" />
         </apex:outputText>
  </apex:column>

I hope this might help you.

Answer 3

I used this approach which made it even more simpler:

For a date picker, which accepts string:

<apex:inputText value="{!d.approvedStart}" size="10" id="approvedStart" onfocus="DatePicker.pickDate(false, this , false);"  />

I had to make sure the version of the page is 28. And approvedStart is a string in the controller. This made it work.