bootstrap-datetimepicker show date only

Question

I am using this repo by smalot and I want to select and show date only (for some other places I am showing data and time, therefore selecting this repo). I can manage to use it for selecting date only but the generated date string is always yyyy-mm-dd hh:ii. And if I did not understand wrongly the format option is for parsing the initial date only but not setting dates.

<div class="input-group date datetime dateonly" data-start-view="2" data-min-view="2" style="margin-bottom: 0;">
    <input class="form-control" size="16" type="text" placeholder="Release Date" id="release-date" name="release_date" value="{{ unit.release_dt|date:'Y-m-d' }}" style="cursor: default; background-color: #ffffff;">
    <span class="input-group-addon btn btn-primary"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-th"></span></span>
</div>

I am setting startView and minView to be both 2 so that the user will need to select date only but I still got 2015-09-22 00:00 as the output-- I just want it to show 2015-09-22.

In fact, by listening to changeDate and hide events, I can just set the value of date inputs. I am wondering if there is a less hacky and dirty way of doing it

$('.datetimepicker').on('changeDate', function(e) {//get substring and set date input
}).on('hide'....//same thing
);

Answer 1

Use date picker

$("#calender").datepicker({
    format: "mm/dd/yyyy"
});