What are you use the date picker in anyway? What product are you talking about since this is posted in the wrong section?
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+++ Rick ---
Pretty sure string dates aren't supported in the format because those values can't be parsed easily.
The formats can be found here:
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker/formatDate
+++ Rick ---
dddd, MMMM dd, yyyy
It returns this:
0808 01/08/2013
Tuesday, 01/08/13
Thank you.