It looks like there is a bug in parsing of dates in 2-digits year format ("yy") that affects keyboard input in the DatePicker widget. I created a simple example of the issue at http://dojo.telerik.com/agaNa. To reproduce the issue change string value to '2/29/2013' with keyboard (don't use popup calendar!). Click anywhere outside of the widget. Surprisingly the value is changed to '2/29/2020'. This is a quite unexpected behavior.
It looks like the reason is that I configured the widget to support both 4-digits and 2-digits year formats (specifically "M/d/yyyy" and "M/d/yy"). Obviously 2013 is not a leap year and there is no "February 29, 2013" but "February 29, 2020" is a valid date!
After some investigation I found that the issue seems to be in the kendo.parseDate:
kendo.parseDate('2/29/2013', "M/d/yy")
kendo.parseDate('2/29/2013', ["M/d/yyyy", "M/d/yy"])
both return date "February 29, 2020" instead of null.
Is there a way to allow both 4- and 2-digits year formats in a DatePicker but avoid such an issue with "February 29"?
It looks like the reason is that I configured the widget to support both 4-digits and 2-digits year formats (specifically "M/d/yyyy" and "M/d/yy"). Obviously 2013 is not a leap year and there is no "February 29, 2013" but "February 29, 2020" is a valid date!
After some investigation I found that the issue seems to be in the kendo.parseDate:
kendo.parseDate('2/29/2013', "M/d/yy")
kendo.parseDate('2/29/2013', ["M/d/yyyy", "M/d/yy"])
both return date "February 29, 2020" instead of null.
Is there a way to allow both 4- and 2-digits year formats in a DatePicker but avoid such an issue with "February 29"?