Datepicker from Granite Foundation - How do you change the property type to Date instead of String

[Dennis_Sanchez]

I am using the datepicker component (granite/ui/components/foundation/form/datepicker) for a new field in the Touch UI, but it saves it as a String property in the node, rather than a Date.  We do querybuilder searches with Dates, and it doesn't seem to work when that field is a String, but it works as a date.

How do I change it so that this component saves this value with type Date rather than String?

[Sham_HC]

did you tried adding an hidden variable @TypeHint of type date?

[smacdonald2008 · Accepted solution]

Another option that you can do is to take the String returned from the component and convert the value to a Date via JavaScript. See: 

http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/date/

Then you can assign that Date value to the JCR node.