Bootstrap datepicker disabling past dates without current date

I wanted to disable all past date before current date, not with current date. I am trying by bootstrap datepicker library "bootstrap-datepicker" and using following code:

$('#date').datepicker({ 
    startDate: new Date() 
});

It works fine. But it is disabling date till today.

As example if today is 04-20-2013 and i disable past dates by setting startDate: new Date(). but I am able to select date from 04-21-2013.

UPDATED: i can solve it as following for UTC zone:

var d = new Date();
options["startDate"] = new Date(d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1));

or startDate: "+0d"

But these methods don't work when UTC is a day ahead. For my client in California that means at 5:00 pm my client can no longer select his local current date as a valid date. In order to fix this I am temporarily using startDate: "-1d", but of course before 5 that means yesterday is visible.

Has anyone come up with a better method for now as I do not want to tell users to put in a UTC date?

Thanks in advance.

Solution 1:

var date = new Date();
date.setDate(date.getDate()-1);

$('#date').datepicker({ 
    startDate: date
});

Solution 2:

HTML

<input type="text" name="my_date" value="4/26/2015" class="datepicker">

JS

jQuery(function() {
  var datepicker = $('input.datepicker');

  if (datepicker.length > 0) {
    datepicker.datepicker({
      format: "mm/dd/yyyy",
      startDate: new Date()
    });
  }
});

That will highlight the default date as 4/26/2015 (Apr 26, 2015) in the calendar when opened and disable all the dates before current date.