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 used $mdDateLocaleProvider to format it on the frond end. If you want to format date while sending it to the back end, the following worked for me :-

$filter('date')(this.date, 'MM/dd/yyyy');

I have the above in controller.