How to set the date in materialize datepicker

Question

I am using materializecss.com Datepicker. When i try to set date with jquery, the date doesn't get set. Here is my Code :-

// Materialize Date Picker
    window.picker = $('.datepicker').pickadate({
        selectMonths: true, // Creates a dropdown to control month
        selectYears: 100, // Creates a dropdown of 15 years to control year
        format: 'dd/mm/yyyy'    
    });

<input type="text" id="Date" class="datepicker" />

On Click event of a Button , I am setting the date :-

$("#Date").val('23/01/2015');

When i open the datepicker it shows me today's date.

How to set the date in materialize datepicker?

Answer 1

Materialize datepicker is a modified pickadate.js picker.

Accodging to their API docs, this is how to set the picker:

1. Get the picker:

var $input = $('.datepicker').pickadate()

// Use the picker object directly.
var picker = $input.pickadate('picker')

1. Set the date:

// Using arrays formatted as [YEAR, MONTH, DATE].
picker.set('select', [2015, 3, 20])

// Using JavaScript Date objects.
picker.set('select', new Date(2015, 3, 30))

// Using positive integers as UNIX timestamps.
picker.set('select', 1429970887654)

// Using a string along with the parsing format (defaults to `format` option).
picker.set('select', '2016-04-20', { format: 'yyyy-mm-dd' })