title: How to set the date in materialize datepicker
body: <p>I am using materializecss.com Datepicker. When i try to set date with jquery, the date doesn't get set. Here is my Code :-</p>
  
  <pre><code>// Materialize Date Picker
      window.picker = $('.datepicker').pickadate({
          selectMonths: true, // Creates a dropdown to control month
          selectYears: 100, // Creates a dropdown of 15 years to control year
          format: 'dd/mm/yyyy'    
      });
  
  &lt;input type="text" id="Date" class="datepicker" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On Click event of a Button , I am setting the date :-</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("#Date").val('23/01/2015');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When i open the datepicker it shows me today's date.</p>
  
  <p>How to set the date in materialize datepicker?</p>