HTML-5 date field shows as “mm/dd/yyyy” in Chrome, even when valid date is set

Question

I just upgraded an ASP.Net MVC application to MVC-4. The field editor for inputs based on DateTime values now include\'s the HTML-5 type="date" attrib

Answer 1

I was having the same problem, with a value like 2016-08-8, then I solved adding a zero to have two digits days, and it works. Tested in chrome, firefox, and Edge

today:function(){
   var today = new Date();
   var d = (today.getDate() < 10 ? '0' : '' )+ today.getDate();
   var m = ((today.getMonth() + 1) < 10 ? '0' :'') + (today.getMonth() + 1);
   var y = today.getFullYear();
   var x = String(y+"-"+m+"-"+d); 
   return x;
}