regarding reitrival of user date

Hi Forum

I have an input field which is mapped to a context of type date, if i want to retrieve the original value entered by the user, how can I do it? for ex in case i enter the date 7/2/07 in this case this gets converted to 07/02/2007 but I want wut user has entered ie 7/2/07.Is this thing possible if so, please assist me.

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Jaspreet Kaur Grewal