From b2627f74327e10c958d1c6ad2446cbfd6eff1703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: byronigoe <byronigoe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 17:03:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Support JSON dates, which are really strings

The formatter for non-HTML5 inputs had logic to convert a Number into a Date (Object), but nothing for Strings (like JSON dates).
---
 src/datepickerPopup/popup.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js b/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js
index 02c0e88a1c..35b8c86ab5 100644
--- a/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js
+++ b/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ function($scope, $element, $attrs, $compile, $log, $parse, $window, $document, $
           return value;
         }
 
-        if (angular.isNumber(value)) {
+        if (!angular.isObject(value)) {
           value = new Date(value);
         }
 

From d840a95d5f3e73b4e078182b4c87a53b731ebeeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: byronigoe <byronigoe@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 10:31:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Better handling of JSON dates

---
 src/datepickerPopup/popup.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js b/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js
index 35b8c86ab5..c47bbbae04 100644
--- a/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js
+++ b/src/datepickerPopup/popup.js
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ function($scope, $element, $attrs, $compile, $log, $parse, $window, $document, $
           return value;
         }
 
-        if (!angular.isObject(value)) {
+        if (!angular.isDate(value)) {
           value = new Date(value);
         }
 
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ function($scope, $element, $attrs, $compile, $log, $parse, $window, $document, $
     }
 
     if (angular.isString(value)) {
-      return !isNaN(parseDateString(value));
+      return !isNaN(parseDateString(value)) || value.match(/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}.000Z$/);
     }
 
     return false;