# Datefield componet. get selected displayed date?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/datefield-componet-get-selected-displayed-date/172443>\
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**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/datefield-componet-get-selected-displayed-date/172443 "2005-12-14T13:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul\_ferrie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@paul\_ferrie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paul_ferrie)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/datefield-componet-get-selected-displayed-date/172443/1 "2005-12-14T13:30:15Z")

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Hi all,  
i am using the datefield component and using dateFormatter to set the formatting to 000-00-00.

This works fine but when i trace the selected date i get “Tue Dec 6 00:00:00 GMT+0000 2005”

Anyone?

thanks  
Paul