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I hate dates, I can never get them to behave. I have a javascript variable that looks like this:

var currentDate = new Date();

I pass this to a C# Web API controller as a parameter. My local time was 12:43 but when I put a breakpoint in my action it shows 11:43. The problem is, that if I do this at 00:43 then my controller would take the date as yesterday. I need it to pick out the right day. If I select the currentDate as 02/09/2015 12:43 then I need my controller to use the same date.

I know this has something to do with local times etc, but how can I get them all to use the same one?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • You may need to do all your work with UTC dates. I'm not sure about javascript, but .NET has that capability. Commented Sep 2, 2015 at 11:50
  • Yeah, I already use UTC dates with C# but the problem is what JavaScript is passing. Commented Sep 2, 2015 at 11:51
  • passing dates between C# and javascript is always going to be hit and miss - we've resorted to using string representations (yyyymmdd) - it's messy, but guaranteed accurate Commented Sep 2, 2015 at 11:54
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    Send it to your API as a string. Then convert the string to a Date inside your controller. Of course, continue to use UTC time. Commented Sep 2, 2015 at 11:54
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    I suffered same issue. Now we used string parameters as its said here. stackoverflow.com/questions/6702705/… Commented Sep 2, 2015 at 11:56
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