Correct way to set date value from JS ?

If I need to update date value from JavaScript, what is the correct way to do this? So far I’ve tried -

$('#date').data('value', new_date);
$('#date').pickadate().pickadate('picker').render();

with no much success.

[amsul]

@andrewmartin the easiest way to interact with it is to get the picker:

var picker = $('#demo__api-open-close').pickadate('picker')
picker.set('select', new Date(2015, 3, 30))

Hope that clarifies things.

[brendanfalkowski]

For anyone who got stuck on this:

var picker = $('#demo__api-open-close').pickadate('picker')
picker.set('select', new Date(2015, 3, 30));

You might be too smart for your own good assuming the passed string pickadate('picker') was supposed to be the variable name. This example would be clearer:

var myPicker = $('#demo__api-open-close').pickadate('picker')
myPicker.set('select', new Date(2015, 3, 30));