MVC4 DataType.Date EditorFor won't display dat

Question

I'm using the DataType.Date attribute on my model and an EditorFor in my view. This is working fine in Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9, but in Google Chrome it is showing a date picker and instead of displaying the value it just displays "Month/Day/Year" in faded gray text.

Why won't Google Chrome display the value?

Model:

[DataType(DataType.Date)]
public Nullable<System.DateTime> EstPurchaseDate { get; set; }

View:

<td class="fieldLabel">Est. Pur. Date</td>
<td class="field">@Html.EditorFor(m=>m.EstPurchaseDate)</td>

Answer 1

As an addition to Darin Dimitrov's answer:

If you only want this particular line to use a certain (different from standard) format, you can use in MVC5:

@Html.EditorFor(model => model.Property, new {htmlAttributes = new {@Value = @Model.Property.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"), @class = "customclass" } })

Answer 2

If you need to have control over the format of the date (in other words not just the yyyy-mm-dd format is acceptable), another solution could be adding a helper property that is of type string and add a date validator to that property, and bind to this property on UI.

    [Display(Name = "Due date")]
    [Required]
    [AllowHtml]
    [DateValidation]
    public string DueDateString { get; set; }

    public DateTime? DueDate 
    {
        get
        {
            return string.IsNullOrEmpty(DueDateString) ? (DateTime?)null : DateTime.Parse(DueDateString);
        }
        set
        {
            DueDateString = value == null ? null : value.Value.ToString("d");
        }
    }

And here is a date validator:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Property, AllowMultiple = true, Inherited = true)]
public class DateValidationAttribute : ValidationAttribute
{
    public DateValidationAttribute()
    {
    }

    protected override ValidationResult IsValid(object value, ValidationContext validationContext)
    {
        if (value != null)
        {
            DateTime date;

            if (value is string)
            {
                if (!DateTime.TryParse((string)value, out date))
                {
                    return new ValidationResult(validationContext.DisplayName + " must be a valid date.");
                }
            }
            else
                date = (DateTime)value;

            if (date < new DateTime(1900, 1, 1) || date > new DateTime(3000, 12, 31))
            {
                return new ValidationResult(validationContext.DisplayName + " must be a valid date.");
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}