Why does DisplayFormat with DataFormatString changes “/” (slash) to “-” (dash)?

Question

I\'m using the following code

// Model
[DisplayFormat(
    ApplyFormatInEditMode = true, 
    DataFormatString = \"{0:dd/MM/yyyy}\")]
public DateTime StartDa         


        

Answer 1

Can you change it to DataFormatString = "{0:d}"

That should give you the short date pattern of mm/dd/year