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Andy G
Andy G

Reputation: 19367

Kendo DatePicker in UK with US format

We are in the UK but have a US client. We want the date of a Kendo DatePicker to display in US format MM-dd-yyy but, testing here, it won't accept any selection of a date value, stating that it must be a valid date.

I have applied .Format("MM-dd-yyyy") to display the value, which works. I have attempted a couple of things to get it to accept a date selection, as you can see here:

@(Html
        .Kendo()
        .DatePickerFor(model => model.Date)
        .Name("Date")
        //.Format("MM-dd-yyyy")
        //.ParseFormats(new[] { "dd/MM/yyyy", "dd-MM-yyyy", "MM-dd-yyyy" })
        .Culture("en-US")
        .HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:150px" })
)

How can I get this to work?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 511

Answers (1)

Andy G
Andy G

Reputation: 19367

Finally got this to work.

In JavaScript we can specify

kendo.culture("en-US");

but the key piece of code I used to get it to work was:

function OnSave(e) {
    e.model.Date = (e.model.Date).toUTCString();
}

Even though e.model.Date was already a valid (UK) date, toUTCString enables an automatic conversion that Kendo/C# can convert to an acceptable date in the model.

Upvotes: 1

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