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This property applies only to Date controls and the Date portion of the Date/Time control. Select the Date control type to display only the date input field with a 
calendar icon. Clicking the calendar to choose the date or hand-typing it, will display the date in the format selected. European date formatting is supported. Allowable Date Formats consist of three different seperators (.- or / or .) and three date display formats (DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, and YYYY/MM/DD). The default value is MM-DD-YYYY.
On a mobile device, the date picker is typically used to provide a date. If you set a default date in your form it must be formatted as YYYY-MM-dd in order for it to display correctly.
The date format choices are shown below:
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