Specifying the value output of of an HTML5 input type = date?

Question

I\'d like to add native date pickers to my application, which currently uses a legacy, home-rolled system. Date input support isn\'t widespread, yet, but if I could present

Answer 1

In Google Chrome, this has recently changed. The values displayed to the user are now based on the operating system locale. The readout, so input.value, always returns as yyyy-mm-dd regardless of the presentation format, however.

Way more useful in my opinion.

Source:

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2012/08/Quick-FAQs-on-input-type-date-in-Google-Chrome