ASP.NET MVC JsonResult Date Format

Question

I have a controller action that effectively simply returns a JsonResult of my model. So, in my method I have something like the following:

return new JsonRes         


        

Answer 1

Not the most elegant way but this worked for me:

var ms = date.substring(6, date.length - 2);
var newDate = formatDate(ms);


function formatDate(ms) {

    var date = new Date(parseInt(ms));
    var hour = date.getHours();
    var mins = date.getMinutes() + '';
    var time = "AM";

    // find time 
    if (hour >= 12) {
        time = "PM";
    }
    // fix hours format
    if (hour > 12) {
        hour -= 12;
    }
    else if (hour == 0) {
        hour = 12;
    }
    // fix minutes format
    if (mins.length == 1) {
        mins = "0" + mins;
    }
    // return formatted date time string
    return date.getMonth() + 1 + "/" + date.getDate() + "/" + date.getFullYear() + " " + hour + ":" + mins + " " + time;
}