How to pass a datetime parameter?

Question

How to pass UTC dates to Web API?

Passing 2010-01-01 works fine, but when I pass a UTC date such as 2014-12-31T22:00:00.000Z (with a time c

Answer 1

It used to be a painful task, but now we can use toUTCString():

Example:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Query(DateTime Start, DateTime End)

Put the below into Ajax post request

data: {
    Start: new Date().toUTCString(),
    End: new Date().toUTCString()
},