How to make jQuery stop pre-validating my input dates?

Question

I'm using ASP.NET MVC 4, which as I understand it uses jQuery validate for client-side validation. Everything works pretty well and as expected, except for the HTML 5 date input

<input type="date" />

Whenever I begin typing a date into the input date field, the validator errors my field after the first number entered (assuming this happens onkeyup). I found the questions that say to disable onkeyup validation using:

$.validator.setDefaults({
    onkeyup: false
});

But that doesn't seem to do anything.

Is this a problem with the validate plugin, or am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: I explicitly stated that the answer in the question you cited did not solve my problem. Thanks though