Javascript Date Format Change on exit

[brianmjohnnies]

My date field has MM/DD/YYYY format which would show 08/03/2017 for example. If I copy a date from a website as 8/3/2017 and paste into the field I would like the date field to recognize that format and change to 08/03/2017 and not throw up a validation error. I looked at various ways to this but can't figure it out through the patterns (to accept the 8/3/2017 format) or through javascript in the exit event.

[radzmar]

You can combine multiple patterns when setting up the edit pattern to allow several different ways for entering a date.

Edit pattern to allow 08/03/2017 and 8/3/2017

date{MM/DD/YYYY}|date{M/D/YYYY}

[CodeSpeedy]

break the date string first then take the month as an integer.

example.
Compare with 12. If it is greater than 12 then it must be a date, not a month.
Then just change the format as per your need
See how to change the date format

https://www.codespeedy.com/format-javascript-date-to-yyyy-mm-dd/ 

But in your case, you can take multiple date pattern so that any date pattern will be valid to pass the validation check.