Kendo DatePicker fails validation for custom date format

Question

I\'m using Kendo DatePicker to edit a Date field being displayed in a Kendo Grid in my ASP.NET MVC 4 project. In order to have the DatePicker being used for the Date field use c

Answer 1

Internally, the date validation rule for ASP.NET MVC (the unobtrusive client validation), uses kendo.parseDate(string) method, which internally will use the predefined date patterns if no format/s is/are defined. I suppose that in your case the default culture is "en-US" and that is why validation fails, because dates with "dd/MM/yyyy" format are considered as not valid. One possible solution is to override the date validation rule (as you did) and parse the string using a specific format. The other option is to set diff culture settings for the page. For instance, the short date format for the "de-DE" culture is "dd/MM/yyyy".