I'm having trouble figuring out how to convert a search form date field from mm/dd/yy to yyyy-mm-dd when submitting the search form. Normally with any other grid date field, i'd simply use the "beforeSubmit" event function as a place to convert the date then insert the new date format into the postdata array, but the search form does not appear to support the "beforeSubmit" event. I'm currently using the "dataevents" property within the "searchoptions" option to set up a "type:change" event to update the input field as follows: It works, but i'd prefer to leave the input field date format as mm/dd/yy (so it does not change in front of the users eye's) and convert the date (within the postdata "filters" string or something) before submitting the search form. It appears that even if there is a way to convert the date before search form submit, any solution would be more difficult since the search form input field ids change as you add more search criterea. Yes, I would prefer to convert on the server side as well as it would allow me to convert the date format received from all grids from one php script, but i don't want to deal with client and server date/time zone difference issues.  All dates and times need to be based on the users local date/time zone. In any case, i have a few questions... 1. are there any parameters associated with the onSearch event like (formid,postdata) that would give me access to