title: Kendo UI MVC datepicker localization
body: <p>Kendo UI culture set to fr-CA.</p>
  
  <p><strong>_Layout.cshtml</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="~/Content/KendoUI/js/kendo.web.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="~/Content/KendoUI/js/kendo.aspnetmvc.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="~/Content/KendoUI/js/cultures/kendo.culture.fr-CA.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
       $(function() {
          kendo.culture('fr-CA');
      });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture fnd Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture are set to "fr-CA".</p>
  
  <p><strong>Datepicker formatted to "MMM dd, yyyy"</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    @{
              Html.Kendo().DatePickerFor(x =&gt; x.DateFrom)
              .Format("MMM dd, yyyy")
              .ParseFormats(new List&lt;string&gt; { "MMM dd, yyyy" })
              .Enable(true)
              .Render();
       }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Dates are shown in the correct format and the calendar is localized, but it displays an error when you pick the date:
  "The field Dater de must be a date."</p>
  
  <p>The error occures only if you select french-specific date (e.g. déc. 16, 2013), for dates which are the same for english and french (e.g. nov. 25, 2013) it works correct. </p>
  
  <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>