Dates without time in ASP.NET Web API's JSON output

Question

Is there a simple way to configure JSON.NET so that some DateTime fields will be formatted without time and other DateTime fields

Answer 1

Yousesef's answer with the OnlyDateConverter is best. But here is one alternative:

private DateTime _birthday;
public string Birthday
{
    get { return _birthday.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd"); }
    set {
          _birthday = DateTime.ParseExact(value, "yyyy-MM-dd",
                                          CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
        }
}

Advantage - You don't need to bind the Newtonsoft.Json library to your classes.

Disadvantage - The property is now exposed as a string anywhere you use it, which can cause it's own set of problems.