Bootstrap datetimepicker default date overridden by max date Using an example of MinDate or MaxDate and DefaultDate .... <script type = "text/javascript" > $ ( function () { $ ( '#enddatepicker' ). datetimepicker ({ minDate : moment (). add ( 1 , 'd' ). toDate (), defaultDate : moment (). add ( 1 , 'M' ). toDate (), format : 'DD.MM.YYYY' }); }); </script> Looking at the code on GitHub (line 1674) if you set the option useCurrent to false, your default may not be overridden: <script type = "text/javascript" > $ ( function () { $ ( '#enddatepicker' ). datetimepicker ({ useCurrent : false , minDate : moment (). add ( 1 , 'd' ). toDate (), defaultDate : moment (). add ( 1 , 'M' ). toDate (), format : 'DD.MM.YYYY' }); }); </script>