I'm using Kendo DatePicker to edit a Date field being displayed in a Kendo Grid in my ASP.NET MVC 4 project. In order to have the DatePicker being used for the Date field use custom date format string, I updated the `Date.cshtml` file under the `EditorTemplates` folder to the following:

```
@(Html.Kendo().DatePickerFor(m => m).Format("dd/MM/yyyy"))

```

By doing that, I managed to have the DatePicker display the format as I want it to. However, it failed validation for some of the dates entered for input, either via manual key in or selection from the popup calendar.

Upon further investigation, I can say that the DatePicker is validating the date based on a `M/d/Y` format. That assumption was made based on my foundings that 12/1/2012 is a valid date, whereas 13/1/2012 is not.

I also tried adding `.ParseFormat("dd/MM/yyyy")` to the end of the DatePicker declaration in `Date.cshtml` but it does not fix anything. So I would say that this is definitely a bug and I will report this to Telerik later.

But for the time being, I'm looking for a workaround to have this working. I find that I can override `kendo.ui.validator.rules.mvcdate` in Javascript to have my own validation function. While this work fine in Chrome, it does not work in IE9.

So, any ideas how I can make the DatePicker to accept `dd/MM/yyyy` input format? Thanks in advance.