I have to situations where I transfer dates from browser to server.
1) First situation is through a jQuery/JSON call to an ASMX service (.NET 4.0).
2) The second situation is when page first serializes an object, which includes a date, to a hidden field and then the page is posted to server. The hidden field is parsed (using .NET’s built in JavaScriptSerializer).
So, let’s say the user enters the date “2011-08-31”. In the first situation the resulting date on the server is 2011-08-30 22:00 (because I am currently in a +2 time zone). However, in the second situation the resulting date on the server is 2011-08-31 (correct).
Both situtations use the same JSON serializer on the browser.
But I cannot understand why these two are generating different dates on server 🙁
Does anyone know?
You need to use UTC dates, take a look at these resources:
get UTC Date in javascript
converting UTC with C#