I have a date picker in my angularJS WCFrest project

I get data using
<div class="col-md-4"> <input id="txtOldDate" type="date" class="datepicker" ng-model="oldDate" /> </div>
but the data is too complicated when I get the data
Fri December 16, 2016 00:00:00 GMT + 07 (SE Asia Standard Time)
I just want to get the value as on the date picker interface
12/16/2016
this is my controller.js
$scope.SearchApproval = function(employeeID, oldDate, newDate, departemen, approver) { var promiseGet = GetApproval.GetApprovalData($scope.employeeID, $scope.oldDate, $scope.newDate, $scope.departemen, $scope.approver);
Is there a way to format the result?
I'm already trying $ filter
$ scope.oldDate = $ filter ('date') (new date (dateString), 'yyyy-MM-dd');
but he gives me this error
Error: [ngModel: datefmt] Expected 2016-12-20
as date
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