The field date must be a date in mvc in chrome [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here's Maxim Gershkovich's solution spelled out a little more:

jQuery.validator.methods.date = function (value, element) {
    if (value) {
        try {
            $.datepicker.parseDate('dd/mm/yy', value);
        } catch (ex) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
};

Notes:

• This depends on the jQuery datepicker method that comes with jQuery UI

• This is actually more robust that the native date validation that comes with jQueryValidate.

  According to the docs on date validation:

  Returns true if the value is a valid date. Uses JavaScript's built-in Date to test if the date is valid, and therefore does no sanity checks. Only the format must be valid, not the actual date, eg 30/30/2008 is a valid date.

  Whereas parseDate will check that the date is valid and actually exists.