POSTing a DateTime from Android to a WCF RESTful JSON Service

Question

I\'m trying to send a DateTime as a parameter to a method exposed over a WCF RESTful service with JSON encoding. The request looks like this:

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Answer 1

The correct format for posting dates to WCF service is using: /Date(53244000000)/ where the number in brackets is the number of milliseconds since 1970 UTC Midnight.

Date dt = new Date();
long date = Date.UTC(dt.getYear(), dt.getMonth(), dt.getDay(), dt.getHours(),dt.getMinutes(), dt.getSeconds());
String senddate = "/date("+date+")/";

And then use it as below

inputparam.put("DateTime", datetime);