Setting maxDate to new Date() renders today's date

[ysagar-docsynk]

Hi,
I have an input field rendered with datetimepicker as follows:
$('.datetimepicker').datetimepicker({ format: 'MM/DD/YYYY', maxDate: new Date() });

Setting maxDate to new Date() is rendering today's date. I see this happened after I upgraded Meteor version to 1.10.1. Earlier when I had version 1.5.2.2, this was working fine. What could cause this issue and how can I resolve this?