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

The better way to handle dates in knockoutjs is to use moment library and handle dates like boss. You can easily deal with dates like /Date(-62135578800000)/. No need to bother of how your serialize date in controller.

function jsonToDate(date,format) {
   return moment(date).format(format);
}

use it like

var formattedDate = jsonToDate(date,'MM/DD/YYYY')

momentjs supports lots of date time formats and utility functions on dates.