Manually entering date in the textbox of Datepicker

[Nikhil Kashyap]

Hi,
I am using the date picker control for choosing dates. Some times user enters dates manually in the datepicker text box control.
In this case, the date is not correct. e.g. if user enters 6/6/11, then it becomes 6/6/1911(when the date picker collapses). which is wrong.

How to avoid the problem?

Regards
Nikhil Kashyap
Customer ID: JT359876

[Georgi Krustev]

Hello Nikhil Kashyap,

To achieve your goal you need to modify telerik.datepicker.js file. There is a special variable, which determines the short year cut off, in parseMachineDate static method. Currently it is set to "+10", which means all short dates bigger then 10 will be parsed as "1900 + short year". In order to set after which number, the year should be treated as 1900 year, you need to make the following modification in the js file:
[before]:

parseMachineDate: function (value, format, minDate, maxDate) {
    var year = -1;
    var month = -1;
    var day = -1;
    var hours = 0;
    var minutes = 0;
    var seconds = 0;
    var isPM;
    var shortYearCutOff = "+10"
    var literal = false;

[after]:

parseMachineDate: function (value, format, minDate, maxDate) {
    var year = -1;
    var month = -1;
    var day = -1;
    var hours = 0;
    var minutes = 0;
    var seconds = 0;
    var isPM;
    var shortYearCutOff = "+30" //date 6/6/31 will be parsed as 6/6/1931
    var literal = false;

Next release of the datepicker, will expose this variable in order to allow to the customers to set this value dinamically.

For your convenience I have attached the telerik.datepicker.js file, which includes the required changes.

Best wishes,
Georgi Krustev
the Telerik team