title: jQuery Datepicker - how to get / read default settings
body: <p>I want to use jQuery datepicker only for parsing and formatting dates, but on my actual page I don't want to implement any datepicker.</p>
  
  <p>Now, I set datepicker defaults, e.g.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.datepicker.setDefaults($.datepicker.regional["de-DE"]);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now my question is, how to READ this default date format, without having any datepicker object?
  Thinking of something like ...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.datepicker.getDefaults('dateFormat');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...returning me the string "dd.MM.yyyy" - possible? </p>