If the Page culture is set to anything other than "en-US", RadDatePicker in the HeaderContextMenu will loose the correct format and swaps the Day with the Month after filtering.
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This issue can be worked around by accessing the DatePickers and re-set their values to reflect the ones from the column.
Wire up the ClientSettings - OnHeaderMenuShowing and HeaderContextMenu - OnClientShown event handlers to the RadGrid:
<telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server"> <ClientSettings> <ClientEvents OnHeaderMenuShowing="menuShowing" /> </ClientSettings> <HeaderContextMenu OnClientShown="menuShown"> </HeaderContextMenu> </telerik:RadGrid>
<script type="text/javascript"> var gridCol; function menuShowing(sender, args) { gridCol = args.get_gridColumn(); } function menuShown(sender, args) { if (gridCol._data.ColumnType == "GridDateTimeColumn") { var container = $("#" + sender.get_id() + "_detached"); var firstPicker = $telerik.findControl(container[0], "HCFMRDPFirstCond"); var regex = /[^\w]/gi; if (gridCol._data.CurrentFilterValue == "") { firstPicker.clear(); } else { var splitBy = regex.exec(gridCol._data.CurrentFilterValue); // returns either dot " . " or " / " or " - " var firstDateDetails = gridCol._data.CurrentFilterValue.split(splitBy); var firstDate = new Date(firstDateDetails[2], firstDateDetails[1] - 1, firstDateDetails[0]); firstPicker.set_selectedDate(firstDate); } var secondPicker = $telerik.findControl(container[0], "HCFMRDPSecondCond"); if (gridCol._data.AndCurrentFilterValue == "") { secondPicker.clear(); } else { var splitBy = regex.exec(gridCol._data.AndCurrentFilterValue); // returns either dot " . " or " / " or " - " var secondDateDetails = gridCol._data.AndCurrentFilterValue.split(splitBy); var secondDate = new Date(secondDateDetails[2], secondDateDetails[1] - 1, secondDateDetails[0]); secondPicker.set_selectedDate(secondDate); } } }</script>