The auto generated error message shows the date format as 'yyyyy/mm/dd' instead of 'mm/dd/yyyyy in ASP.Net MVC application

Question

I am working on ASP.Net MVC 4.7.2 app. It has a date field where user can select or type the date. If user enter the date with year yyyyy (the length of year is greater than 4 here)then the error shows up which show the date in 'yyyy/mm/dd' format instead of 'mm/dd/yyyy' format. See the screen shot below. I want to show the same format in the error message as mm/dd/yyyy'. To fix the issue I did search and it seemed this is generated from kendu whereas I am not using the kendu control for date field. As a work around, I thought I can limit the max length but that did not work as well.

View html:

 <div class="form-group">
            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Name, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "control-label col-xs-2" })
            <div class="col-xs-8">
                @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Name, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control", @readonly = "readonly" } })
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Name, "", new { @class = "text-danger" })
            </div>
        </div>

Answer 1

I try some research and seem like it's hard to change the error message with the right format. You can update the error message to "Please enter a valid date" or "Please enter a valid date with format mm/dd/yyyy"

            @Html.EditorFor(model => model.Name, new
        {
            htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control" },
            data_val_date = String.Format("Please enter a valid date",
            Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.Name))
        })