Why no Date Selector Form Field

Why has Acrobat Pro not included a date selector as one of their form fields when it is such an important and useful option?

Good question! This is something I've feature requested for some time. There's one for XFA forms created with LiveCycle Designer, Reader for iOS allows the native iOS date selector, and Forms Central forms have one. The problem with Acroforms is a new type of form field would have to be approved by the ISO folks who now control PDF. But it could also be implemented as a JavaScript method, similar to app.popUpMenu, which would allow backwards compatibility.
Please submit a feature request so there's some hope of this being added in the future. In the mean time, it's possible to built a date picker using a collection of form fields, as demonstrated with the free Form Router toolset: http://www.formrouter.com/tools/index.html

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but all that happens is :
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just the names of the fields appear

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Why Due Date is necessary field

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Please check any "Validation" is there or not.
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