I am using Jquery ui datepicker, the dateFormat is set to dd/mm/yyyy. My Local machine Server date format is set to mm/dd/yyyy. So i converted the format in View.
<input type="text" class="form-control datepicker" value="@string.Format("{0:dd/MM/yyyy}", DateTime.Now)" name="LoanDate" required /> In my model on POST, I get LoanDate as null.
If I reset My Local machine date format to dd/mm/yyyy, I get the LoanDate in my Controller POST method.
How to solve this Issue?
This is how i solved it :-
public class UTCDateTimeModelBinder : DefaultModelBinder { public override object BindModel(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext) { var value = bindingContext.ValueProvider.GetValue(bindingContext.ModelName); // Check if the DateTime property being parsed is not null or "" (for JSONO if (value.AttemptedValue != null && value.AttemptedValue != "") { // Parse the datetime var dt = DateTime.ParseExact(value.AttemptedValue, "dd/MM/yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); return dt; } else { return null; } } } In Global.asax - Application_Start() :-
var binder = new UTCDateTimeModelBinder(); ModelBinders.Binders.Add(typeof(DateTime), binder); ModelBinders.Binders.Add(typeof(DateTime?), binder); Now i get LoanDate Value in my Model in dd/MM/yyyy format.
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value=" @DateTime.Now.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy")"