Pass a datetime from javascript to c# (Controller)

Question

How do you pass a date time (i need it to the second) to c# using jquery and mvc3. This is what I have

var date = new Date();    
$.ajax(
   {
       type: \         


        

Answer 1

I found that I needed to wrap my datetime string like this:

"startdate": "\/Date(" + date() + ")\/"

Took me an hour to figure out how to enable the WCF service to give me back the error message which told me that XD