Why is DisplayFormat DataFormatString not working?

Question

I have a property in my view model as follows:

[Editable(false)]
[Display(Name = "Date")]
[DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:yyyy/MM/dd}", ApplyFormatInEditMode = true)]
public DateTime MovementDate { get; set; }

Yet the markup

<td>
    @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.MovementDate)
</td>

renders the date value as 2013/05/15 12:00:00 AM.

What am I doing wrong? My model:

public class WithDateModel
{
    [DisplayFormat(DataFormatString = "{0:yyyy/MM/dd}")]
    public DateTime TheDate { get; set; }
    public WithDateModel()
    {
        TheDate = DateTime.Now;
    }
}

My view:

@model ParkPay.WebTests.Models.WithDateModel
@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.TheDate)
@section Scripts {
    @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
}

What gets rendered:

2013/05/25 02:23:37 AM

Answer 1

If you can't get it working on the model, you could try it on the view.

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.ValidFrom, "{0:dd/MM/yyyy}", new {maxlength = 10})