To be honest, I don’t know much about the date field.
I just did some testing and setting minDate to anything <= 0 (without setting maxDate) disables everything before today. Setting anything for maxDate >= 0 without setting minDate disables everything after today.
But setting a minDate using a + value like +10 and not setting a maxDate works as expected, setting a maxDate with a – value like -10 without setting minDate works as expected.
Edit: trying args.minDate = 'November 1, 2016'; sets the minimum date in the datepicker to June 11, 2022, but that format used is the format set in dateFormat.
