MVC action returning json object with a date field [duplicate]

Question

I have an MVC action that returns JsonResult which I pass in a class where one field is a DateTime field. When I read that field in from javascript it's display like:

/Date(1391666400000)/

public JsonResult GetDate()
{
   return Json(DateTime.Now(), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

How can I convert this to just say "2/6/2014" like it was when coming from .NET?

Erik this is such a small example I figured an explanation of what I was looking to do was enough, but I showed the simple example code above now. — user441521
– user441521, Commented Jul 10, 2014 at 17:19

Kyle Gobel · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-10 17:26:05Z

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The comments link better answers and explanations, but personally I just use a quick dirty javascript function like so

function date(s) { 
  return new Date(parseFloat(/Date\(([^)]+)\)/.exec(s)[1])); 
}

var jsDate = date(jsonDateFromDotNet);

answered Jul 10, 2014 at 17:26

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user441521 Over a year ago

Perfect thanks. Simple and to the point. I like answers like that!

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