Datepicker does not validate when bound to a ISO date string?

[bp5800]

The date picker no longer validates when it is passed an ISO date string.
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This is a consequence of #4062.

[wesleycho]

The PR linked makes it clear - we are no longer supporting that due to various cross-browser issues & more.

[bp5800]

The PR makes it clear you don't want to accept arbitrary strings that the browser interprets as a date using new Date().

I'm getting dates from a web service in this format. It seems this would be fairly common. It seems to me you should be able to handle this particular format.

[wesleycho]

Problem is that different browsers will even handle ISO dates in different and unexpected ways - it also overly complicated the model-view interplay with ng-model. The best workaround on the user's side is to convert it to a date object before binding to the model - for any properly built application, this should be a trivial change since there should always be a parsing layer that converts the api response before binding to a model.

[bp5800]

Okay, I will (with regret) leave it at that. Thanks.