passing to MVC Control parameter from Javascript

Question

In my jQuery code I am calling a controller action and I'm trying to pass in dates from the fullcalendar plugin:

url: ('Home/List/?dateValueStart=' +  new Date($('#calendar').fullCalendar('getView').start))
+ '&dateValueEnd=' + new Date($('#calendar').fullCalendar('getView').end),

In my controller I have my method setup like this:

public ActionResult List(String dateValueStart, String dateValueEnd)

When I debug dateValueStart I see this:

Tue Oct 1 00:00:00 MDT 2013

DateTime dateVal = Convert.ToDateTime(dateValueStart);

But when I try to convert this to a date it tells me it is invalid.

String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.

How can I get a date close to 10/1/2013?

@JasonP in C# or javascript? I don't have either as none of it really worked... — webdad3, Oct 01 '13 at 19:54
Have you tried [`DateTime.Parse`](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1k1skd40.aspx)? — Jason P, Oct 01 '13 at 19:55
@JasonP Yeah I looked at that, but that gave me virtually the same message. I updated my question with what I was originally trying. — webdad3, Oct 01 '13 at 19:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Javascript date support isn't the greatest. There are shorter ways to do the following but they don't work in all browsers:

var formatDate = function(d){
    var curr_date = d.getDate();
    var curr_month = d.getMonth() + 1; //Months are zero based
    var curr_year = d.getFullYear();
    return curr_month + "/" + curr_date + "/" + curr_year;
}

var startDate = new Date($('#calendar').fullCalendar('getView').start);
var endDate = new Date($('#calendar').fullCalendar('getView').end);

var url = 'Home/List/?dateValueStart=' + formatDate(startDate) + '&dateValueEnd=' +
formatDate(endDate)

Also, check out this

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Oct 01 '13 at 19:59

John Wu

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I really wanted that to work but I got an invalid date when I implemented this. – webdad3 Oct 01 '13 at 20:08
Oops! British date format has the month and day reversed. I've edited the above to get it right. – John Wu Oct 01 '13 at 22:42

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