MY Ajax call
$('#QuickReserve').click(function () {
var now = new Date();
alert(now);
var _data = {
'ComputerName': _computerName,
'_mStart': now.toTimeString(),
'_mEnd': now.toDateString()
};
$.ajax({
cache: false,
// contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
type: "POST",
async: false,
url: "/Home/SetMeeting",
dataType: "json",
data: _data,
success: "",
error: function (xhr) {
alert("Error");
alert(xhr.responseText);
}
});
});
MY C# code
public ActionResult SetMeeting(string ComputerName, DateTime? _mStart, DateTime? _mEnd)
{
}
DateTime values are not received at code end..... They just appear blank.
In jquery when i tried to
'_mStart': now.toTimeString(),
'_mEnd': now.toDateString()
to datestring does return today's date, but, i want time part of date time also.
Don't do any tricks with data formats. Just use standard function date.toISOString() which returns in ISO8601 format.
from javascript
$.post('/example/do', { date: date.toISOString() }, function (result) {
console.log(result);
});
from c#
[HttpPost]
public JsonResult Do(DateTime date)
{
return Json(date.ToString());
}
Converting the json date to this format "mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:ss" is the whole trick
dateFormat is a function in jsondate format.js file found at
http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format
var _meetStartTime = dateFormat(now, "mm/dd/yyyy HH:MM:ss");
Can you not just pass one DateTime up, and separate the Date part from the time part on the server?
Can you not just pass '_mDate': now;
public ActionResult SetMeeting(string ComputerName, DateTime? _mDate)
{
// Then in here use _mDate.Date, and _mDate.Time
}
Why not convert the date (and time) into a timestamp from Unix Epoch and then use js to display the date?
c#
public double FromUnixEpoch(DateTime value)
{
DateTime unixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
double timeStamp = (value - unixEpoch).Ticks / 1000;
return timeStamp;
}
js
var myDate = new Date( object.myEpochDate *1000);
myDate.toUTCString().toLocaleString();
With this approach you can pass the epoch as a string inside json and then handle it like a date in js.
It has to do with formatting. You can definitely use libs or plugins, I chose to keep it really simple:
function getFormattedDate(date) {
var curr_date = date.getDate();
var curr_month = date.getMonth() + 1; //Months are zero based
var curr_year = date.getFullYear();
return curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year;
}
KISS!