HTML5 Date Input Broken

I am unable to get a simple HTML5 input type=date to work once the Ionic framework js files are added to the page. This seems to be consistent in the Ionic starter project as well (project created from the command line tool “ionic start [project name]”. Is there a fix or workaround for this?

Please don’t post the same question in multiple places.

See my answer here:

FYI : IF you have a reply to that, put it here instead of continuing on that very old thread.