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

In my case in my Model I had :

[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:dd MMM yyyy}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)].

In my view in my script, I had:

    $(function () {
                $('.datepicker').datepicker({
                    changeMonth: true,
                    changeYear: true,
                    format: "dd MMM yyyy"
                });
        });

When I changed my script's format to format: dd M yyyy - it worked.