Change format of md-datepicker in Angular Material with momentjs

Question

Angular material introduced a new date picker component found here.

I want the date returned by this component to be in the format yyy-mm-dd but I am not su

Answer 1

I had same problem and came up with this simple solution with the help of moment.js. I used ng-change attribute which fires when the date is changed.

Inside your HTML:

Inside your controller:

$scope.dateChanged = function() {
    this.myDate = moment(this.myDate).format('YYYY/MM/DD');
}