asp.net mvc - Error in date validation MVC

Question

My model class property looks like this

   public DateTime PurchaseDate { get; set; }

and inside view

 @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.PurchaseDate, new { @class = "form-control date-picker" })
 @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.PurchaseDate)

and I am giving a date like this in form

19/06/2015

But it gives validation message and not allows page to be submitted, message is like this

The field PurchaseDate must be a date.

if I give date in mm/dd/yyyy format it works. Can anyone point out what I am doing wrong here?

Answer 1

If you want to explicitly set the expected date format for your model property then you can do this using the DisplayAttribute

[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:dd/MM/yyyy}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public DateTime PurchaseDate { get; set; }

Otherwise, the current culture of the server would be used (which in your case happens to be MM/dd/yyyy).

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It appears that in order for client-side validation to respect the DataFormatString we need to use EditorFor in place of TextBoxFor

 @Html.EditorFor(model => model.PurchaseDate, new { @class = "form-control date-picker" })
 @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.PurchaseDate)