title: Default date not being displayed correctly in jQuery datePicker
body: <p>I use jQuery datePicker to pick dates and use the following to set a text box with today's date as default.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="date" name="startDate" value="&lt;?php echo date("d/m/Y"); ?&gt;" id="datepicker" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The default date seems to appear correctly but when I then open the date picker it goes to the wrong date as in the picture below. Can anyone explain how to get the two formats to match?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/NcSRo.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>The script used for the date picker is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script&gt;
    $(function() {
        $("#datepicker").datepicker({dateFormat: "dd/mm/yy"});
    });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>