How to get Grid and Form to send DateTime in the same format back to the server?

[Kaan]

Hi!

I have an editor template (DATETIMEEDIT.cshtml) for date times, which I use in a Grid and also in an ordinary form:

@model DateTime?
@(Html.Kendo().DateTimePickerFor(m => m)
.TimeFormat("HH:mm")
.HtmlAttributes(new { style = "width:100%;" })
)

 

The editor is bound to the Grid in this way:

var c = columns.Bound(fieldName);
c.EditorTemplateName("DATETIMEEDIT");
c.Format("{0:dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm}");

 

And this is how the editor is integrated into the HTML form:

@Html.EditorFor(v => dateTime, "DATETIMEEDIT", fieldName)

 

When I update the date and time, the Grid sends it back to the server as "3/21/2016 5:35:00 PM", and the form as "21.03.2016 17:35".

However, I need a reliable DateTime exchange format between the server and the client. "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm" (24 hour) would be ok, but any other consistant solution would be alright too because if the server receives an unpredictable format, then I can't convert it into a C# DateTime object. Maybe there is another preferrable way to handle date times between the client and server? I don't even know why the Grid uses the American format as default because I work on a German workstation here.

 

Best,

Kaan

 

 

[Viktor Tachev]

Hi Kaan,


Please examine the following article that describes how you can have the same time format on the server and the client.

• http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/aspnet-mvc/helpers/grid/how-to/utc-time-on-both-server-and-client

Regards,
Viktor Tachev
Telerik