MVC action returning json object with a date field

Question

I have an MVC action that returns JsonResult which I pass in a class where one field is a DateTime field. When I read that field in from javascript it's display like:

/Date(1391666400000)/

public JsonResult GetDate()
{
   return Json(DateTime.Now(), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

How can I convert this to just say "2/6/2014" like it was when coming from .NET?

[Please please please... show your code](http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve). — Erik Philips, Jul 10 '14 at 17:13
Also see http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OnTheNightmareThatIsJSONDatesPlusJSONNETAndASPNETWebAPI.aspx — asawyer, Jul 10 '14 at 17:14
Erik this is such a small example I figured an explanation of what I was looking to do was enough, but I showed the simple example code above now. — user441521, Jul 10 '14 at 17:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '14 at 17:26

2

The comments link better answers and explanations, but personally I just use a quick dirty javascript function like so

function date(s) { 
  return new Date(parseFloat(/Date\(([^)]+)\)/.exec(s)[1])); 
}

var jsDate = date(jsonDateFromDotNet);

answered Jul 10 '14 at 17:26

Kyle Gobel

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Perfect thanks. Simple and to the point. I like answers like that! – user441521 Jul 10 '14 at 17:28

MVC action returning json object with a date field

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