how to fix 'The field must be a date' on a datetime property in mvc

Question

I need to capture date and time both for my model property. In my model class I have the following

[Required]
[DataType(DataType.DateTime)]
public DateTime?          


        

Answer 1

I added the fix for date format parser, but I needed to set the format to 'L' so it could be work in all Locales:

$(function () {
$.validator.methods.date = function (value, element) {
    return this.optional(element) || moment(value, "L", true).isValid();
}
});