Discussion on Date format.

I checked out documentation and It looks like Datepicker take moment object. I do not understand why Date picker of this world cannot adopt the world most simple and unconfusing format. YYYY-MM-DD. As per my experience, IMHO, A date picker must communicate in YYYY-MM-DD format which is most simple and minimum sufficient.

[ljharb]

@nsisodiya in either case, you can go from one format to the other. The question is, is the more common case “you want a powerful/flexible moment object, that you can use to produce a multitude of formats including YYYY-MM-DD”, or “you want a YYYY-MM-DD string”?

In either case you don’t want to blindly JSON.stringify it and send it to the server, so in every case you may need to do your own formatting. It seems far more preferable to use a moment object to do that formatting, rather than to force every user of the library to either reinvent the wheel, or convert to moment themselves?

[majapw]

Nah, I think you are right that the default value should be in a standardized format. Pretty much, 90% of my woes at Airbnb in the past have stemmed from using internationalized dates on the server-side/in urls/etc.

I’ve created https://github.com/airbnb/react-dates/pull/229 to address this issue.