c# - Still struggling with the JSON.net Dateformat -

i have problems transmitting date (in string format) our object, since serializer seems convert wrong time.

the format dd.mm.yyyy (swiss time format) , serializer tries convert mm-dd-yyyy (where days converted months).

so if have date 06.03.1992 (6th of march), converter makes 3rd of june. , if day higher 12, program crashes.

i know can specify date format somehow, haven't got working solution. ideas problem?

thanks in advance, daniel

you can control format json.net uses serializing , deserializing dates creating new instance of isodatetimeconverter class, setting datetimeformat property on require , passing converter serializer.

here demo:

class program {     static void main(string[] args)     {         isodatetimeconverter dateconverter = new isodatetimeconverter         {             datetimeformat = "dd.mm.yyyy"         };          foo foo = new foo { date = new datetime(2014, 3, 12) };          // serialize object containing date using custom date format         string json = jsonconvert.serializeobject(foo, dateconverter);         console.writeline(json);          // deserialize json custom date format object         foo foo2 = jsonconvert.deserializeobject<foo>(json, dateconverter);         console.writeline("day = " + foo2.date.day);         console.writeline("month = " + foo2.date.month);         console.writeline("year = " + foo2.date.year);     } }  class foo {     public datetime date { get; set; } } 

output:

{"date":"12.03.2014"} day = 12 month = 3 year = 2014 

note: approach, date format applied all dates on objects serializing or deserializing. if require different formats different dates, see this question offers couple of possible solutions.