title: Issue opening jQuery UI datepicker with current date
body: <p>I am using jQuery UI datepicker.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input id="sent_date" type="text" value="01/01/2001"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Initialized like this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$( "#sent_date" ).datepicker({
      changeMonth: true,
      changeYear: true,
      dateFOrmat: "mm/dd/yy",
      defaultDate: new Date()
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now the datepicker opens at "01/01/2001". If I change my JavaScript like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>$( "#sent_date" ).datepicker({
      changeMonth: true,
      changeYear: true,
      dateFOrmat: "mm/dd/yy",
      defaultDate: new Date()
  }).datepicker("setDate", 0);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now the datepicker opens at "11/08/2013". But my textbox also change to "11/08/2013"<br>
  JSFiddle: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/codovations/3KutM/" rel="nofollow">http://jsfiddle.net/codovations/3KutM/</a></p>
  
  <p>So, my question is,</p>
  
  <p>How can I <em>open my datepicker with today's date</em> (11/08/2013), <em>without altering the displayed textbox date</em>(01/01/2001)?</p>