The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type Error

Question

I have a controller:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Create(Auction auction)
{
    var db = new EbuyDataContext();
    db.Auctions.Add(auction);
    db.SaveCh         


        

Answer 1

The error is because you haven't actually set those values correctly, make sure you set them depending on your applications locale. (e.g. dd/mm/yyyy for en-GB, mm/dd/yyyy for en-US).

It also looks like your database has been set up to use a datetime2 column and not a datetime column.

You can either:

A) Modify the database to change the type from datetime2 to datetime

B) Change the types in your Model to be datetime2, by doing:

[Column(TypeName = "DateTime2")]
public DateTime StartTime { get; set; }

[Column(TypeName = "DateTime2")]
public DateTime EndTime { get; set; }