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In rails project I'm using best_in_place datepicker and have some trouble with date format.

The html generated by best_in_place:

<span class="best_in_place pull-right" id="best_in_place_task_5_deadline" 
 data-url="/projects/4/tasks/5" data-object="task" data-attribute="deadline" 
 data-type="date" data-original-content="2012-08-16">16 Aug</span>

As you can see from data-original-content the date format is yy-mm-dd, but when I choose the date I've got something like this 09/03/1916

I've tried to set the date format in application.js:

$.datepicker.setDefaults({ dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' }); 

But it didn't help.

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It wasn't obvious for me, I had to look inside the code source

  $.extend($.fn.datepicker.defaults, { format: 'dd-mm-yy' });
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