Wrong DateFormat with Jquery Datepicker

Question

I want to exclude the time part in the DateTime Textbox, but I can\'t make it work the way I want.

This is how I set up the field :

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Answer 1

The reason why you date is not being correctly bound is that your datepicker is using dd/MM/yyy format, but you server is using MM/dd/yyyy format. To make this work, you can create a custom model binder to handle DateTime values and parse them to the format you want.

public class CustomDateTimeBinder : IModelBinder
{
  public object BindModel(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext)
  {
    var value = bindingContext.ValueProvider.GetValue(bindingContext.ModelName);
    CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-GB"); // dd/MM/yyyy
    var date = value.ConvertTo(typeof(DateTime), culture);
    return date;
  }
}

and register it in Global.asax (this means it will apply to all DateTime values

ModelBinders.Binders.Add(typeof(DateTime), new YourAssembly.CustomDateTimeBinder());