dd-mm-yyyy format for datepicker of MVC is not working in Chrome

Question

In my MVC5 Razor code for entering Date of Birth I am using a datepicker as below

    @Html.EditorFor(model => model.date_of_birth, 
new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "m-wrap  datepicker" } })

Here for the model.date_of_birth an EditorFor is calling and making it as a datepicker with @class = datepicker

Then the datepicker is initiated at the script area with below code

 $('.datepicker').datepicker({
            format: 'yyyy-mm-dd',
            autoclose: true
        })

Here the date format is 'yyyy-mm-dd' and it is working fine, but the user want it to be in dd-mm-yyyy format. So I changed the format in script as dd-mm-yyyy In Internet Explorer it is working fine but in Chrome it is giving an error for some date

eg:  14-05-2015

The field Date of Birth* must be a date.

the date 11-05-2015 is working fine in chrome also. So I guess Chrome is taking the date format in mm-dd-yyyy.

The format 'dd-M-yyyy' is also working correctly only error coming for dd-mm-yyyy

Any way to overcome this browser specific error?

Edit

$.validator.addMethod('date', function (value, element) {
    if (this.optional(element)) {
        return true;
    }
    var valid = true;
    try {
        $.datepicker.parseDate('dd/mm/yyyy', value);
    }
    catch (err) {
        valid = false;
    }
    return valid;
});

$(function () {

 $('.datepicker').datepicker({
            format: 'dd/mm/yyyy',
            autoclose: true
        })
});

Answer 1

At last I found a solution.

First I create a new java script file with name jquery.validate.date.js with the below code in it

$(function () {
    $.validator.methods.date = function (value, element) {
        if ($.browser.webkit) {
            var d = new Date();
            return this.optional(element) || !/Invalid|NaN/.test(new Date(d.toLocaleDateString(value)));
        }
        else {
            return this.optional(element) || !/Invalid|NaN/.test(new Date(value));
        }
    };
});

It overwrite the date validation function in jquery.validate.js

Then i call the script just after 'jquery.validate.js' like below

<script type="text/javascript" src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.val.js")"/>

<script type="text/javascript" src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.val.date.js")"/>

Now the date format dd/mm/yyyy is working in both chrome and IE without any error.

Answer 2

There is a problem with unobtrusive validator for dates in non 'yyyy-MM-dd' format. Similar question is here.

Solving by disabling validation of dates

jQuery.validator.methods["date"] = function (value, element) { return true; } 

or by using globalization.

In my case i always set input to readonly and add datepicker from jquery.ui. with localization.

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.date_of_birth, 
    new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "m-wrap  datepicker", @readonly="readonly" } })

and some js:

// include localization for datepicker

$( "#date_of_birth" )
    .datepicker( $.datepicker.regional[ "ru" ] )
    .datepicker({ dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy' });