I find that in the raddatepicker if you manually type in the date and try to access what is in the object I get 01/01/0001 instead of what was typed in. Is there some setting to set to manual typing is allowed?
You did not specify if you are accessing the typed in value on the client or in code behind.
Here's a simple sample to assist with client-side accessing of a value that is typed into the DateInput TextBox of the RadDatePicker ujsing JavaScript: