[Solved] Date Time format on Grid

[Bill]

Can someone tell me if this is the expected behavior with DateTime columns when you switch from Display Mode to Edit Mode?

Display Mode: 07/27/2010 12:00

Edit Mode: Tue Jul 27 00:00:00 PDT 2010

Furthermore when I switch back to Display Mode for the row, the format doesn't change back and stays at Tue Jul 27 00:00:00 PDT 2010. Am I supposed to add some JavaScript or perhaps clean up the Model data?

[Jigar]

Hi Bill,

Try this;

For Column:

columns.Bound(Function(c) c.createddatetime).Format("{0:d}")

For Details-View:

DetailView(Sub(dtView)                                                                 dtView.ClientTemplate("<div><ul><li><#= getDateInFormat(createddatetime) #></li></ul></div>")                                                                     
End Sub)
<script type ="text/javascript">
    function getDateInFormat(myValue) {
        return $.telerik.formatString("{0:d}",myValue);
    }
</script>  


Hope this helps.

thanks.

[Bill]

looks like I'm more or less doing that already. It works initially but reverts back after you click Edit.

  col.Bound(bat => bat.BargeActivityDateTime)
                 .Format("{0:MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm tt}")
                 .Width(150)
                 .Title("Date & Time");   

[Forest]

I've had this issue as well.

What I did to solve it is actually a solid design principle if you're using View Models.  Basically, add a string property to your View Model class to return the Date formatted the way you want.

I'm sure there's a way to convert it on the client-side via JavaScript, but consider the View Model approach as well.