How do I pass a datetime value as a URI parameter in asp net mvc

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I need to have an action parameter that has a datetime value   Is there a standard way to do this   I need to have something like   mysite Controller Action 21-9-2009 10 20   but I m only succeeding indoing it with something like   mysite Controller Action 200909211020   and writing a custome function to deal with this format   Again  looking for a standard or sanctioned ASP net MVC way to do this

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Split out the Year  Month  Day Hours and Mins   routes MapRoute               MyNewRoute                 controller   action   Year   Month   Days   Hours   Mins                new   controller  YourControllerName   action  YourActionName                Use a cascading If Statement to Build up the datetime from the parameters passed into the Action        Build up the date from the passed url or use the current date     Dim tCurrentDate As DateTime   Nothing     If Year HasValue Then         If Month HasValue Then             If Day HasValue Then                 tCurrentDate   New Date Year  Month  Day              Else                 tCurrentDate   New Date Year  Month  1              End If         Else             tCurrentDate   New Date Year  1  1          End If     Else         tCurrentDate   StartOfThisWeek Date Now      End If    Apologies for the vb net but you get the idea  P

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Use the ticks value  It s quite simple to rebuild into a DateTime structure   Int64 nTicks   DateTime Now Ticks         DateTime dtTime   new DateTime nTicks

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The colon in your first example s url is going to cause an error  Bad Request  so you can t do exactly what you are looking for  Other than that  using a DateTime as an action parameter is most definitely possible   If you are using the default routing  this 3rd portion of your example url is going to pickup the DateTime value as the  id  parameter  So your Action method might look like this   public ActionResult Index DateTime  id        return View        You ll probably want to use a Nullable Datetime as I have  so if this parameter isn t included it won t cause an exception   Of course  if you don t want it to be named  id  then add another route entry replacing  id  with your name of choice   As long as the text in the url will parse to a valid DateTime value  this is all you have to do  Something like the following works fine and will be picked up in your Action method without any errors    lt   Html ActionLink  link    Index   new   id   DateTime Now ToString  dd-MM-yyyy        gt    The catch  in this case of course  is that I did not include the time  I m not sure there are any ways to format a  valid  date string with the time not represented with colons  so if you MUST include the time in the url  you may need to use your own format and parse the result back into a DateTime manually   Say we replace the colon with a     in the actionlink  new   id   DateTime Now ToString  dd-MM-yyyy HH mm       Your action method will fail to parse this as a date so the best bet in this case would probably to accept it as a string   public ActionResult Index string id        DateTime myDate      if   string IsNullOrEmpty id                 myDate   DateTime Parse id Replace                       return View        Edit  As noted in the comments  there are some other solutions arguably better than mine  When I originally wrote this answer I believe I was trying to preserve the essence of the date time format as best possible  but clearly URL encoding it would be a more proper way of handling this   1 to Vlad s comment

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I thought I d share what works for me in MVC5 for anyone that comes looking for a similar answer   My Controller Signature looks like this   public ActionResult Index DateTime  EventDate  DateTime  EventTime         My ActionLink looks like this in Razor    Url Action  Index    Book   new   EventDate   apptTime  EventTime   apptTime     This gives a URL like this    Book EventDate 01 2F20 2F2016 2014 3A15 3A00 amp EventTime 01 2F20 2F2016 2014 3A15 3A00   Which encodes the date and time as it should

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You should first add a new route in global asax    routes MapRoute                   MyNewRoute                     controller   action   date                    new   controller  YourControllerName   action  YourActionName   date                         The on your Controller             public ActionResult MyActionName DateTime date                         Remember to keep your default route at the bottom of the RegisterRoutes method   Be advised that the engine will try to cast whatever value you send in  date  as a DateTime example  so if it can t be casted then an exception will be thrown   If your date string contains spaces or   you could HTML Encode them so the URL could be parsed correctly   If no  then you could have another DateTime representation

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Since MVC 5 you can use the built in Attribute Routing package which supports a datetime type  which will accept anything that can be parsed to a DateTime   e g     GET  Orders  orderDate datetime       More info here

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Try to use toISOString    It returns string in ISO8601 format   from javascript    get   example doGet date     new Date   toISOString    function  result        console log result         from c    HttpGet  public JsonResult DoGet DateTime date        return Json date ToString    JsonRequestBehavior AllowGet

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Typical format of a URI for ASP  NET MVC is Controller Action Id where Id is an integer  I would suggest sending the date value as a parameter rather than as part of the route    mysite Controller Action date 21-9-2009 10 20   If it s still giving you problems the date may contain characters that are not allowed in a URI and need to be encoded  Check out    encodeURIComponent yourstring    It is a method within Javascript   On the Server Side   public ActionResult ActionName string date         DateTime mydate       DateTime Tryparse date  out mydate       FYI  any url parameter can be mapped to an action method parameter as long as the names are the same

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i realize it works after adding a slash behind like so  mysite Controller Action 21-9-2009 10 20

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I have the same problem  I use DateTime Parse Method  and in the URL use this format to pass my DateTime parameter 2018-08-18T07 22 16 for more information about using DateTime Parse method refer to this link   DateTime Parse Method string StringDateToDateTime string date                DateTime dateFormat   DateTime Parse date           return dateFormat          I hope this link helps you

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