Question

I have a REST api, thats being called from a silverlight client, and when I do a get I’m sending datetimes like this:

/getInformation?id={id}&checkFromDate={checkFromDate}

where Id is an int and checkFromDate is a Datetime.

When I backend recive these requests from a pc it looks like this:

2012-09-10%2000:00:00

And I’m handling that just fine, but when doing the same request from a mac I get:

2012-09-07%20kl.%2000:00:00%20+02:00

My question is how should I handle this?

Answer 1

From the Silverlight docs:

The ToString() method returns the string representation of the date and time in the calendar used by the current culture.

So this will not be consistent across all your clients (probably has nothing to do with Mac vs PC really).

You need to format the date manually using a fixed format and put that in your URL rather than depending on ToString.