It would be helpful if when entering a date into a datepicker control you could just type +7 to have it select 7 days from today. Or -5 for 5 days ago. Or if you just type 0, it would select today. Or type 15 and it would select the 15th of the current month. This would make keying in dates much faster than using the calendar.
Thanks for sharing your idea, guys. Presently you may consider utilizing the integration of our date picker with the DateJS library to support custom date patterns. Review the following help article for more info: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/web/datepicker/how-to/datejs-integration
Also: typing 1/6 then tabbing out would fill in 01/06/2015 (or 06/01/2015 depending on locale).