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    <p><strong>How can i tell my controller/model what kind of culture it should expect for parsing a datetime?</strong></p> <p>I was using some of <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/stuartleeks/archive/2011/01/25/asp-net-mvc-3-integrating-with-the-jquery-ui-date-picker-and-adding-a-jquery-validate-date-range-validator.aspx" rel="noreferrer">this post</a> to implement jquery datepicker into my mvc application.</p> <p>When i submit the date it gets "lost in translation" i'm not using the US formatting for the date, so when it gets sent to my controller it simply becomes null.</p> <p>I have a form where the user chooses a date:</p> <pre><code>@using (Html.BeginForm("List", "Meter", FormMethod.Get)) { @Html.LabelFor(m =&gt; m.StartDate, "From:") &lt;div&gt;@Html.EditorFor(m =&gt; m.StartDate)&lt;/div&gt; @Html.LabelFor(m =&gt; m.EndDate, "To:") &lt;div&gt;@Html.EditorFor(m =&gt; m.EndDate)&lt;/div&gt; } </code></pre> <p>I've made an edit template for this, to implement the jquery datepicker:</p> <pre><code>@model DateTime @Html.TextBox("", Model.ToString("dd-MM-yyyy"), new { @class = "date" }) </code></pre> <p>I then create the datepicker widgets like this.</p> <pre><code>$(document).ready(function () { $('.date').datepicker({ dateFormat: "dd-mm-yy" }); }); </code></pre> <p>All this works fine.</p> <p>Here is where the problems start, this is my controller:</p> <pre><code>[HttpGet] public ActionResult List(DateTime? startDate = null, DateTime? endDate = null) { //This is where startDate and endDate becomes null if the dates dont have the expected formatting. } </code></pre> <p>This is why i would like to somehow tell my controller what culture it should expect? Is my model wrong? can i somehow tell it which culture to use, like with the data annotation attributes?</p> <pre><code>public class MeterViewModel { [Required] public DateTime StartDate { get; set; } [Required] public DateTime EndDate { get; set; } } </code></pre> <hr> <p>Edit: <a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/melvynharbour/archive/2008/11/21/mvc-modelbinder-and-localization.aspx" rel="noreferrer">this link</a> explains my issue and a very good solution to it aswell. Thanks to gdoron</p>
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