Right now, it is not possible to specify data-max or data-min for fields as time or dates (data-role="datepicker", data-role="timepicker"...) since the parsing of the options only recognizes null, true, false, float and JSON objects (NOTE: it works fine if you use kendoTimPicker({min:...}). So I propose to change parseOption in kendo.core.js for adding an extra condition as: else if (evalRegExp.test(value)) { var res = evalRegExp.exec(value); if (res[1] !== null) { value = eval(res[1]); } } where evalRegExp is: evalRegExp = /^eval\((.*)\)/ and its usage would be define data-min="eval(new Date(2000,1,1,6,0,0))" Any option that matches eval(.*) would be returned as result of evaluating it. The final code would be: var templateRegExp = /template$/i, jsonRegExp = /^\s*(?:\{(?:.|\n)*\}|\[(?:.|\n)*\])\s*$/, jsonFormatRegExp = /^\{(\d+)(:[^\}]+)?\}/, dashRegExp = /([A-Z])/g, evalRegExp = /^eval\((.*)\)/; function parseOption(element, option) { var value; if (option.indexOf("data") === 0) { option = option.substring(4); option = option.charAt(0).toLowerCase() + option.substring(1); } option = option.replace(dashRegExp, "-$1"); value = element.getAttribute("data-" + kendo.ns + option); if (value === null) { value = undefined; } else if (value === "null") { value = null; } else if (value === "true") { value = true; } else if (value === "false") { value = false; } else if (!isNaN(parseFloat(value))) { value = parseFloat(value); } else if (jsonRegExp.test(value) && !jsonFormatRegExp.test(value)) { value = $.parseJSON(value); } else if (evalRegExp.test(value)) { var res = evalRegExp.exec(value); if (res[1] !== null) { value = eval(res[1]); } } return value; }