The text that the user sees in the grid cells gets formatted by a formatter utility function before being rendered. Using ui.value provides the Date object that the grid uses internally, not the cell text. In case you need the date in a MM/DD/YYYY format, calling the “getCellText” grid method for the currently edited cell would provide you the cell text. I am not sure which event you are handling, but I guess it is the editRowEnded (correct me if I am wrong?). Its “ui” parameter also gives you a reference to the rowID, which is needed when calling “getCellText”. The code might look like this:

Approach 1:

 let cellText = $("#grid").igGrid("getCellText", ui.rowID, "MyDate");

Another possible approach is to construct the string yourself by calling the “getFullYear”, “getMonth” and “getDate” methods of the Date object. Then the code might look like this:

Approach 2:

let year = ui.values.MyDate.getFullYear()
let month = ui.values.MyDate.getMonth() + 1 //this is because month index starts from 0 instead of 1
let day = ui.values.MyDate.getDate()
let shortDate = month + "/" + day + "/" + year

You get “11122039” when you parse the date because this is the number of milliseconds that have passed since January 1, 1970 excluding the leap seconds – that is how JavaScript stores dates internally.

If you need any additional assistance, feel free to contact me.

Just a follow up. If I change the dateType to string, I get the correct value when this is set to string.

Please I really need to get this resolved.  I cannot even parse the date in that format as I get 11122039 returned when I try Date.parse(). Any ideas?