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HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/css/bootstrap.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.eyecon.ro/bootstrap-datepicker/css/datepicker.css">
<script src="https://raw.github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker/range/js/bootstrap-datepicker.js"></script>
<input type="text" class="span2" value="02-16-2012" id="depart-date" >
<input type="text" class="span2" value="02-16-2012" id="return-date" >

CSS

.container {
        background: #fff;
    }
    #alert {
        display: none;
    }

JavaScript

$(function() {

    // create the departure date
    $('#depart-date').datepicker({
        autoclose: true,
        format: 'mm-dd-yyyy',
    }).on('changeDate', function(ev) {
        ConfigureReturnDate();
    });


    $('#return-date').datepicker({
            autoclose: true,
            format: 'mm-dd-yyyy',
            startDate: $('#depart-date').val()
        });
    
    // Set the min date on page load
    ConfigureReturnDate();

    // Resets the min date of the return date
    function ConfigureReturnDate() {
         $('#return-date').datepicker('setStartDate', $('#depart-date').val());
        
    }

});