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Birthdate off by one date

I have a javascript app in which the user selects their birthdate using a 3rd party datepicker.
This date is then sent to the server, where it is stored in SqlServer as a Date (not a DateTime, nor a DateTimeOffset).
This typically works fine. However, if the user is in a timezone such as +2:00, and it's just after midnight, then the date which is sent to the server is now different.
For example, I select the date of Jan 1, 2000 in the DatePicker.
The value which is being sent to the server is: 1999-12-31T22:00:00.000Z
The server then strips the time off it to store it as a date, and then the date is now off by one.
How do I resolve this?

I believe that dateFormat: "d/MM/yyyy" option of datepicker is what you're looking for.
Otherwise you can use the following code to convert Date object into the required string.
date.getDate()+"/"+(date.getMonth()+1)+"/"+date.getFullYear()
Both of the options will give you a string with the date, which you can then convert to date object in sql using str_to_date
See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1861519/2652134

PDF Form Date Calculations and Restrictions?

I have made a PDF Form, I still have the following tasks to be done, any help will be useful:
Date Picker: Is there any Hijri/Gerogian Datepicker known to work on PDF Forms.
Date Compare: I have to date fields, want to validate the the end date field to be equal or more than the start date.
Calculate Date: Want to calculate the number of days between two dates.

how to validate and add date using jquery

I am working on a health website.
I am having a field called Last Menstrual Period, its a textbox which has to be filled in by doctor in format of YYYY-MM-DD.
What I want to do is, I have to add 281 days into the LMP date that the doctor will be entering in order to generate the Expected Delivery Date (Child Birth)
So I need followings thing to do:
The date entered should be in format of YYYY-MM-DD
It should be a valid date i.e. taking care of leap years and invalid dates like 2013-02-31 etc.
After generating the Expected Date of delivery (based on LMP that is entered), it should be displayed on screen.
As soon as the date is entered in the LMP textbox, these validations should be performed and the Expected Date Of Delivery is displayed inside a tag below the LMP textbox
How can I do that? Here is what I have tried so far.
// Calculate Expected Date Of Delivery
$('#lmp_date').change(function()
{
var lmp_entered = $this.val();
if(lmp_entered)
{
// $('#edd').html('1');
}
else
{
// $('#edd').html('Please enter last menstrual date to calculate EDD');
Please help me how to implement these validations and display the date using jquery. I am a newbie in jquery so dont know much about it. Any small help will be highly appreciated.

for validation I don t recommend using another library especially for such a simple rule. if the rule is so strict just write your own and use it site wide.
For example block non-numberic entries to textbox and add dash "-" by your code in every 5th and 9th chars.
Then to validate check the length of text and dashed, use split to get year. month and day separately and convert it to date with Date(txtYear,txtMonth,txtDay) if your date's year, month and day are equals to your txtYear, Month and Day then it means it s a valid date. After that use the below to calculate birth date.
just use Date constructor like below
var delDate = new Date(year, month, day + 281)
Just don t forget months start 0 in JS so Jan = 0, Feb = 1 etc.

Javascript Date acting weird

Okay, I have heard about it but I can confirm now that the Javascript Date functionality is a disaster zone. And I have created a monster out of it. I have this Program :
A JSON object contains list of holiday dates and its respective label.
I need to find out the date of 5 business days from today (excluding saturday, sunday and holiday if any which is contained in the JSON object.) Good stuff so far. Then this 5 business days' date is going to be devoured by the jquery calender as a default selected date which is not included in the fiddle as it is irrelevant. (Note: the start date on the calender is tommorow's date) Good stuff again. THEN, comes this part: If it is before noon today, I can select tommorow else start date is day after tommorow. I'm elaborating this because it is included in this fiddle.
So the problem is multiple initialization of the function which handles above functionality is not producing consistent result. It was calculating 5 business days on my system, but when i made this fiddle, it is calculating 4. The date of "5th" business days is incremental by 1 on each call.
http://jsfiddle.net/xXQ7j/27/
Anyone!

Your problem is probably caused by timezone issues.
Whenever possible you should use new Date(y, m, d) to create a date object, rather than supplying a string. In particular, I've found that you get a date relative to 00:00 UTC if you specify a string in format yyyy-mm-dd but one relative to local midnight if you use yyyy/mm/dd.
In any event, I would suggest a different approach:
convert your holiday date into an object, with the date being the key
generate today's date
if it's after noon, get tomorrow's date - d.setDate(d.getDate() + 1)
create an empty array
add one day (per #3 above)
check if the new day is Saturday or Sunday, if so, go back to #5
check if the new day is in the holiday list, if so, go back to #5
add the new date to the array
repeat until you have 10 entries
That should give you the next 10 business days in your array. Pick the ones you need to fill out your date picker.

Date Of Birth Validation in JavaScript?

I have a date of birth like 12-08-1989 in text box in HTML.I want to validate that the user must be of 18 years old in javascript.
I have used Date function in javascript but it seems like it accept YYYY-MM-DD format but i want to validate in DD-MM-YYYY.
How can I achieve this?

var pattern =/^([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{4})$/;
if(pattern.test(str_input_date))
{
alert("valid date");
}
This should give you a start. :)

You should probably be using some validation framework, like jQuery.validation. This is by far more consistent way to handle validation in your code. If this is the only validated field in your app, you can, of course, use naive implementation as provided above.
Whether you need some advanced date validation rules, you could use a JS date framework, like Moment.js (or Date.js, which is pretty outdated at the moment).

you can use the date class, just like this
try{
var x=new Date('1/1/2001');
var Cnow=new Date();//current Date
if(Cnow.getFullYear()- x.getFullYear()<18){
alert('not old enough');
}
else{
//success !!!
}
}
catch(ejs){alert('invalid')}

"I have used Date function in javascript but it seems like it accept YYYY-MM-DD format but i want to validate in DD-MM-YYYY"
You can create a Date object by passing the year, month and day (and, optionally, the hour, minute, second, and millisecond) values separately:
var aDate = new Date(2012, 5, 22);
So if you use a regex or other string methods to extract the pieces from what the user entered then you can create a date from DD-MM-YYYY (or whatever other) format you like.
The way I'd test if the user is at least 18 years old would be to add 18 years to their date of birth and see if that is on or before today's date:
aDate.setFullYear( aDate.getFullYear() + 18 )
The various methods available on a Date object are listed at MDN.