Pass DataTime as part of object JSON

Question

I am trying to send datatime by Ajax to Controller.

var toDbViewModel = {
    "ClientId": clientId,
    "ProjectId": projectId,
    "TaskId": taskId,
    "Description": description,
    "Duration": totaldur,
    "Start": start.toISOString()
}

Every other vars are ok but "Start" equals "1/1/0001 12:00 AM"

What do I do wrong ?

--EDIT--

While sending from Website the date is : "2016-01-04"

Have you verified in the debugger that `start` has the expected value? — crashmstr, Feb 01 '16 at 08:16
Also, `toISOString()` seems to be Javascript, so no c# here (i.e. is this tagged correctly)? — crashmstr, Feb 01 '16 at 08:17
I'm not sure what exactly the question is, but I do want to verify that `DateTime.Parse("1/1/0001 12:00 AM")` works perfectly fine and DateTime is able to understand that format. — Owen James, Feb 01 '16 at 08:18
What is the vale of `start` and what does `start.toISOString()` return (your your developer tools to debug your script). If the value when you bind the model is `1/1/0001 12:00 AM` then the data your sending is not a valid date. You should also show the controller method you posting to. — , Feb 01 '16 at 10:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 01 '16 at 08:43

I think, you get string "1/1/0001 12:00 AM" at server side because C# does not able to parse your passed date time value and take default DateTime value.

Below is the sample example to pass JSON data to server.

Server Side:

public class Person
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public DateTime Birthday { get; set; }
    public string[] Hobbies { get; set; }
}

Method:

public bool ProcessData(Person person)
{
    return person != null;
}

Client Side:

//POST the following JavaScript
var personObj = {
    name: "ABC",
    birthday: new Date(2016, 0, 1),
    hobbies: ["xyz", "pqr"]
};

$.ajax({
    url: "URL",
    type: "POST",
    contentType: "application/json",
    data: JSON.stringify({ person: personObj }),
    success: function(response) {
        response ? alert("It worked!") : alert("It didn't work.");
    }
});

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 01 '16 at 08:12

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You can send the date as a Time-Stamp instead, In Java >> http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/util/date_gettime.htm

answered Feb 01 '16 at 08:12

Ghayth

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This might be helpful >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2683118/new-date-gettime-in-net – Ghayth Feb 01 '16 at 08:24

Pass DataTime as part of object JSON

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