Why isn't the the value updating?

[Brian Vallelunga]

I have, what I think is a simple MVVM example, where I can't get the displayed value to update. I think there's something very simple I must be missing here.

There's a demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/BrianVallelunga/UzLED/

Basically, I have a view model with a date. I have buttons that change the date. Finally, I have a span bound to a function that formats the date. For some reason the formatted value never changes, despite the date itself changing. Any thoughts?

[Brian Vallelunga]

Looking into this more, it seems that Kendo can't tell when a date on a view model is changed. I've updated my example at: http://jsfiddle.net/BrianVallelunga/UzLED/1/ with a new dummy text value that is manually set every time I change the date value. It is also referenced, but not used in the displayCurrentDate function. Adding this, but not using it causes displayCurrentDate to be called and to update the displayed value.

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello,

 Indeed Kendo MVVM cannot detect a change in a Date object itself because JavaScript dates are not wrapped. The way to make it work is to create a new Date object and then update the view model. Here is a sample implementation: http://jsfiddle.net/korchev/QgDED/2/ 

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team